Today we met for the first time with Robert Blanda from Pratt & Whitney to talk about the project that will fill up my life in the coming six weeks: improving the energy and cost efficiency of the power plant that supplies P&W's East Hartford factory. It is going to be a ton of work, but also it is shaping up to be very rewarding from both a corporate social responsibility standpoint and a business perspective. I know that I've been indoctrinated into MBA culture because I really am thinking about opportunities in terms of bullet points.

As everybody (myself included) knew would happen, I'm getting stoked about the summer ahead. There are real advantages to working on a project that dovetails so strongly with my MEng coursework and research from last year, real positives to being on the east coast and relatively close to home, and real benefits to working for a relatively small company. No word about employee discount furniture just yet, but that would be considered a perquisite if this were full time employment.