Dreams of Googling Crushed...

So my Gemstone mentor sent my name along to Google as a potential candidate for their summer internship program. About two weeks later, I got an email from them asking me to schedule a phone interview. I was really excited, and psyched, until one night, very late, while cruising the Wolframm website to use the Integrator to do some electromagnetics problems, I happened across a copy of the Google Aptitude Test, along with solutions in Mathematica on that site. Suffice it to say, I went into the interview pretty freaking scared. It turns out, the researcher who had been interested in me had misinterpreted something I had in my resume. She is working on GooglePrint, which will have a massive database of searchable documents. I had had a job two summers ago reading and classifying astronomy journal articles, and she mistakenly thought that I had designed some system to do this automatically. Nope, it was actually pretty low-tech.

A week later, I get a rejection email. Oh well, I guess it was never meant to be. I am and will remain, an amateur googler.