I got up around 8:30 AM to get to work in SoHo by 10 AM. I live in a dorm at NYU with a floor full of other HackNY fellows really central to NYC, which is amazing. I made breakfast and ground some coffee and worked on a personal Node.js project then walked to SoHo around 9:30AM. Work started at 10AM. I work as a front-end engineering intern primarily with Backbone.js and Require.js lately, so I spent between 10AM-6:30PM doing a quick standup, then coding or getting food from the kitchen (I eat a lot).

Then at 6:30, which is relatively early for me to leave, myself and another intern (non HackNY), went over to Pivotal Labs. We don't usually get to bring other interns with us, but we were having an intern buddy night. When we first got to Pivotal Labs we ate dinner and networked. I got to catch up with a lot of the other fellows and their "intern buddies." We're having a demo day coming up soon so we were all sharing what we would present.

Then Josh Knowles, of Pivotal Labs, gave a talk on the process of developing software and took questions along the way. I got to ask 2-3 on agile software development, recruiting and automation. It was like tech lead 101. After the talk we were allowed to ask him questions separately, but I was all questioned out, so I went out to a bar with my intern buddy and another friend of the program and we talked about the startup spaces we were interested in and how to encourage technology innovation on our respective campuses. I then talked to my suitemates (also HackNY, sans one) about everything from girl stuff to Ruby on Rails database preferences. The peers are one of my favorite parts of the program. Living on a floor full of hackers is incredibly inspiring and we get so much done by inspiring (and sometimes competing) with each other.

So yeah, that's a real day in the life.