So Long and Thanks for the Free Yogurt

And so this summer adventure comes to an end. Today is the final day of my internship here at Babcock & Jenkins. It has been a real pleasure. In anything, it is the people that define the experience, and we have great people here. I want to take this opportunity to thank them publicly.

Shout-Outs

Nate Tannenbaum, whether it was getting my blog off the ground, teaching me SEO from the ground up, great project work, or showing off some impressive Photoshop skills, you made my summer undeniably better.

Mark Fries and Stephen Kozik, I wish you two every happiness. You have a beautiful bromance—whether its taking the MAX home watching Stark Trek together on one iPod or competing in the bnj.com site redesign, you two exemplify brotherly love. Mark, your readiness to explain anything we do here with clarity and insight made life here easy from day one, and you’re funny. Stephen, you are home runs and 808s.

Brent Wynn, you made anything I wrote sound better than it was. Your design sense pushes the language to a higher level.

RD Symms, your one-liners make Leno look dense. Thank you for consistently pushing my copy to a professional level and then, more tellingly, explaining why.

Carmen Hill, you have elite tweet skills. Keep living life in the nanosecond. And you’re a master grammatician. No one else could have caused me to rethink the serial comma.

Erik Wittlake, you’re smart. I don’t think I’ve ever received such a dense wave of information as at our lunch. Hands-down, you know our audience.

Julie Wisdom, your grace under pressure and clear eyes for creative allow us to produce the best work. You articulate our agency. Clearly your dumpster-diving days in journalism served you well.

Shannon Fraser, we truly are intern heroes. Thai food was always a highlight of the week.

To the rest of the team, thank you for such an enjoyable internship. A quick list of my favorite things: Ben’s handwriting, Josh’s motorcycle flow, Lauren’s warmth with clients, nerf guns, Stephen’s Helvetica obsession and love of Firefox text anti-aliasing, Jake’s surfer calm, Colin’s accent, Stephanie’s pug and cool hats, Denise’s confidence, Tom Russo’s furious intensity, Go-2-Meeting working, and the constant thought-provoking work.

Thank you all. I learned so much.

To anyone outside of the company, thank you for reading my work this summer. If you are considering Babcock & Jenkins as your agency or your employer, I recommend it. If you want to follow me you can find me on Twitter or on my new blog Numenary.

Best,

Blake Hinckley