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As promised, my "farewell" email, entitled: 'So long, and thanks for all the fish':

All,

Today was my last day at Amazon, and I wanted to take a moment and thank you all for the help / advice / wry comments you have given me during my time here.

If the mark of a successful internship is how much I learned, then my time here has been a huge success. I've learned new languages (in the case of Perl, learned to hate), learned new technologies (some of which even exist outside of Amazon), and absorbed volumes of "Real World" corporate programming culture. I've seen a [REMOVED], a major [REMOVED], and our group's move to [REMOVED] has been 3 months away since I got here.

Coming from a family of teachers, I think that the culture absorption will end up being the most valuable knowledge I take away from here. I've gained a baseline against which I'll measure all opportunities in the future, and I've come to realize what is important to me in a work environment and what isn't.

Again, I'd like to thank you all for the part you played in my time at Amazon. The technical details I could have learned elsewhere, but it's because of the people I interacted with that I gained so much culture knowledge and had fun doing it.

-Travis

Okay, I admit it; at least two of those censored blocks were completely unecessary. What can I say, it makes me feel more important.

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