We caught up with Maya this weekend and learned about the first week of her internship at Brookhaven National Labs.  She has had to work very hard to familiarize herself with many of the concepts she will be dealing with and to teach herself C++ programming which she needs for her work project. Her task will be to take data gathered from the high-energy collider and generate histograms of the types of particles emitted during collisions.  She is reluctant to ask too many questions given how valuable the time of her mentors is but is finding help from some of the returning interns.  She has sent no pictures yet (hint), so I have gone to the archives for a photo of her taken exactly ten years ago.