Things I will miss about Livermore
- the people
- the CAUTION! OPEN DOORS SLOWLY signs on the bathrooms
- having a government email address
- my dosimeter
- my enormous spreadsheets
- the overabundance of tampons and sanitary napkins everywhere you looked in the bathrooms
- the bike system
- my badge
- free ice cream
- lack of homework
- the town
- Pleasanton, which is very pleasant
- my mentor’s office and the candy therein
- LASERS
- my sweet office supplies
- almost literally covering my entire cubicle with post it notes
- the cafeteria’s utensil dispensers
- California drivers and California road markings/signage
- freedom from any responsibility other than work
- having webcomics update at 9:00 pm instead of midnight for me
Things I will not miss about Livermore
- the climate control
- having email blocked at work
- waiting days and weeks in order to get relatively simple computer permissions
- being treated like a 4-year old by the interns only a few years older than me
- people forgetting that I'm on meeting maker and consequently never letting me know when there's a meeting I'm expected to attend
- filling out my enormous spreadsheets
- constantly having my badge checked by suspicious employees
- having to move offices every other week because whoever’s room it really was had returned from vacation
- waiting for the visualization software to load, or dealing with it when it was broken
- sizing pictures pixel by pixel
- not being allowed to take pictures on site
- having to deal with grown-ups all the time
- explaining that I’m still in high school and being told what a great opportunity I’m getting
- talking about my high school and its surprisingly demanding course load
- explaining that I’m leaving early so I can get my driver’s license and having to listen to various
stories about driving
- the isolation and homesickness
- the achingly slow internet connection
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