tshr/theremin — pull request #1 by BrowenChen (2014-05-06 18:13:54+00:00)
Title: Message for Toshiro :)

Sorry for all of this if you find it annoying! Just hopefully trying to
get my last efforts to contribute to your team this summer as an unpaid
intern!

Hm... seems like the message wasn't as formatted neatly as I thought. Ill just copy paste it here:

It was an absolute pleasure talking to your team last Thursday, and this definitely may be a tad bit intrusive sending a private message through Facebook, but I would like to get in touch with you to maybe see the possibility of offering to work as an entirely unpaid intern with your team this summer? Of course, I understand if through legality issues or anything else that it might not work out, but I’d feel like I definitely would like to give it my all for an opportunity such as this to see if I can work things out. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced as many butterflies in my stomach in my life on Monday waiting for a response. (I actually looked up the physiological processes of why people get those “butterflies”).

Although I have a lot of reasoning and explanation behind this decision and would love to discuss further, I’ll keep this to the point and brief in case there really is absolutely no chance to work as an unpaid intern to contribute to your work. I do realize my technical abilities weren’t enough to compete with all of the other applicants because I am nowhere near as accomplished as a lot of my peers (just the fact that I was told I was among the top 5 really shook me up), but I feel that I do have that desire, passion, and commitment to give it my all this summer to learn and contribute as much as I can with web dev at a company I love and would absolutely do this for free. In the end, passion and consistent progression trumps “natural” talent (quotes because I actually don’t believe in that idea), and that’s what I keep telling myself as I always see successful people around me who achieve great things.

If you would like to discuss further about this possibility, I would love to entertain you with my backup plans for salvaging what’s left of my current summer situation as it’s actually pretty funny/interesting yet highly highly stressful/sadish, especially around finals week and the current personal situations surrounding my life. Again, I just genuinely would like to work with you guys this summer and would be honored to have that opportunity if there is at all any slight, teeny tiny spec of hope for that possibility. Either way whichever the outcome, it was great meeting you all and hands down I think that was the most fun interview I’ve ever had. Never had an interviewer straight up calling me browen.

Thanks again
-Browen