Anyone an ITA?

NonAbsolute
Tue, 02 May 2006 14:44:08 +0000

Regarding the experience/work, I think it’s worth it if you have realistic expectations. Depending how much you know coming in, the 4 days of training in the summer will be either a review or a lot of new material for you. During the first week of school when everyone’s moving in, you’ll be busy as hell, but it gets to be very routine, ie no special cases during this time. For the rest of the year, you’ll get the majority of your hours as “lab time”, meaning you just sit in the lab for 3 hours. You get to refill the printer/help anyone who asks, but mostly you just do your homework or watch movies. There is also tech time, where you work on someone’s specific problem, and you can punch time for helping people outside of your normal hours as well. The majority of new skills are learned during tech time. It’s also relatively social, as most ITA staffs try to do things together occasionally. Except when your manager won’t let you hire strippers (an equal # of both male and female) for your senior ITA project:-)