Wim Leers

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Jul 07 2012 Talk

Graduation ceremony

For the 2012 Hasselt University Science Faculty graduation ceremony (“proclamatie” in Dutch), I was asked to present my experiences as an intern at Facebook.

Jan 01 2012 Blog post

Twelfth week: wrapping up

My last week at Facebook … it seemed so long until I could finally return to my beloved Anneleen. Simultaneously, time seems to have flown by.

Jan 01 2012 Blog post

Eleventh week: last struggles & Holiday Party

On Monday, I worked on getting my code committed and tied up many loose ends. I got very positive feedback from my manager! :)

Dec 08 2011 Blog post

Tenth week: Facebook swag, double victory, C++11

On Monday, I finally got Qt committed (if you’ve been reading my blog, then you’ll know that I started this two weeks ago). It cost me about five full work days.

Dec 07 2011 Blog post

Ninth week: `--static`, Thanksgiving and tofurkey

My ninth week here can be summarized very briefly: the work week was very short. Thanks to Thanksgiving on Thursday, we got off on Thursday and Friday.

Dec 06 2011 Blog post

Eighth week: static Qt, pizookie & American football

This week, I finally got around to reporting an issue that has been bothering me for a long time on Facebook.

Nov 27 2011 Blog post

Seventh week: Google, Cirque du Soleil and JOHNNIAC

Monday was the first day after Anneleen left. Obviously a sad day. Plus, due to the lack of sleep the night before she left, I was still feeling very tired.

Nov 26 2011 Blog post

Sixth week: Engineering summit & Anneleen's visit

Facebook, or well, my manager, graciously allowed me to take two days off — I believe in large part because I had been working so hard in the first 5 weeks of my internship.

Nov 25 2011 Blog post

Fifth week: "work hard, play hard", Stanford & Palo Alto

This week, I worked very hard to get as much work done as possible — as I did the preceding weeks, but with renewed energy and focus — before Anneleen would arrive Saturday that week.

Nov 17 2011 Blog post

Fourth week: impostor, "Belgium?" & MV FAST

On Monday, I biked to Facebook and back. Since I left early, it was cold. Very cold. Belgium cold. What’s worse though, is the state of biking.

Oct 26 2011 Blog post

Third week: biking to SF on the Super Safe Clown Show

This workweek was rather uneventful. I just worked very hard on pushing my project forward.

Oct 23 2011 Blog post

Second week: indoor skydiving, Alcatraz & scavenger hunt

On the Tuesday of the second week, I started feeling very much at home here in the sunny Silicon Valley.

Oct 18 2011 Blog post

First week at Facebook

While I obviously can’t publish the details here, the orientation was very cool.

Oct 17 2011 Blog post

Facebook internship: getting there

I didn’t expect the goodbye to be easy, but I never expected it to be so hard, either. I think it was one of the hardest things I ever did, on that 23rd of September, 2011.

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