My Internship With The City of Surrey!

In the first two days of my internship with the city of Surrey I knew civil engineering was cooler than I thought.
I specifically explored transportation engineering during my time at this internship. After this internship, I knew
this field is the field I wanted to pursue. Below I will talk about what my day-to-day looked like and things that
I got to do. I was told to arrive at 8:00 am but since I was so passionate about being there I would get there around
7:20 am and at my time of arrival there were very few employees. Being there was a good feeling every day and I felt like
the work I was doing was actually fun and meaningful to people around me. Also, I would get 1 hour of the break time
on a daily basis which obviously I would spend eating but sometimes I would split it up into two 15-minute breaks and
one 30-minute break. One cool thing was that I was given a window seat so I could directly see the Surrey public library outside
and often there were a lot of events taking place. I basically got the best view of the vibrant life of downtown Surrey.
Lastly, to do all of my work I was given a laptop and a computer mouse.

Now talking about work, I got a chance to work on the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit). I will explain what the BRT is in a different blog.
But in order to work on the BRT I used the City Of Surrey Mapping Online System (COSMOS). I had a chance to look and read files
needed for BRT. Honestly, some files I was just not able to understand because I would need to learn a lot more things before
I could understand what they were saying. But I often went up to my supervising engineers and asked them what it meant.
And them being amazing engineers, they always gave me a thorough walk-through of the files! I learned a lot and
for sure I have a lot more to learn ahead of me. I also had a chance to do site walkthroughs which are basically
deficiency walkthroughs. So, every time after the city completes a project they go and take a walk of the site that
was just constructed. They then look for any errors such as a wrong sign, a major crack, a safety hazard, or anything
that did not comply with the drawings that the engineers worked on. The engineers would note down any deficiency and
send it off to the company that finished the project and they would come fix it. I was lucky enough to spot a deficiency
in the location of a street sign which was accounted for and then fixed! I think this covers most of the stuff I wanted
to talk about. This was not everything I did or learned I got more things to share, so stay tuned!