Bennett Kahn Post #1

The first day of my internship was on Monday, May 13. For those of you who do not know, I am interning at Lucid. Lucid is a data/survey company located downtown in One Canal Place whose CEO is actually on the board of St. Martin’s. I chose to do my internship here because it is very close, if not identical, to the field I envision myself going into in the future. At Tulane next year I intend to major in Mathematics and minor in Computer Science. These are skills which would transition to a company like Lucid quite well! Perhaps the most important aspect of my time with Lucid is the endless connections I will make with a company that is one of the leading players in the Tech field in New Orleans. The experience and the few skills I will gain in these two weeks are wonderful, but two weeks is a short time to gain priceless skills in, so for this reason it is the connections I am establishing that excite me most. For somebody in my situation—a young adult who wants to go into a Tech company, ideally in his hometown—interning at Lucid opens up a real job possibility in the future. So far, the internship is exactly what I expected. I have only gone 1.5 days due to AP exams, but I have sat in on many meetings and even learned some coding (my personal favorite thus far)!