This summer, I left the friendly confines of Cambridge and journeyed out West to strike it rich intern as a software engineer at Khan Academy. And that’s not quite doing it justice: it was a totally transformative experience.
![Salman Khan of Khan Academy](http://i1.wp.com/blog.hathix.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/me-and-sal.jpg?resize=300%2C300)
Awesome projects
I grew a ton as a software engineer by working with my mentor on such cool projects as:
– Creating SEO’d landing pages for our videos
– Building a feature to send users notification emails whenever their questions on our videos get answered, working closely with a designer
– Tracking down and fixing bugs in our new video player