Internship at ABN AMRO, moving to Amsterdam
After graduating in Psychology, I had only one more thing to do: finding an intern position for my study Human Machine Communications that would enable me to write my final master thesis.
The last few weeks I have been busy sending application letters to various internet related companies, following up on these letters by phone and via email and meeting people at these companies. Since all companies I applied at were in the Randstad, I had to travel almost 2,500 kilometers in order to be able to meet everybody.
It have been some extremely fun weeks: writing the perfect letter and then getting positive calls and emails in response. It was nice to see the differences between banks, online retailers and internet bureaus, and visiting all these companies and hearing how they work. I have met some great people.
This is "Dialogues House", which is part of the ABN AMRO office at the Foppingadreef.
All this hard labour has finally paid off: next week, I will start as an intern at the Interactive Banking department at ABN AMRO in Amsterdam. I will do research into the reasons why people do not like to wait for a web page to load (e.g. additional load on short-term memory, or interruption of cognitive processes), and what the best solution for this problem would be (lest making the page load faster). Hopefully, I will be able to test my solution on the public ABN AMRO web site.
Thus, for the next six months, I will be working fulltime at the ABN AMRO office at the Foppingadreef in Amsterdam. This means that I will be moving to Amsterdam. Fortunately, I had some luck in finding a temporary place to live in the centre of Amsterdam. Unfortunately, I will have to quit singing, dancing classes, cancel my Cleopatra A.S.G. membership and drop pretty much everything in Groningen. That is going to be hard…
I would love to have friends over in Amsterdam, so if you are in the vicinity, give me a call and drop by.
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