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Lisa joins us as a Summer Intern in our Marketing department while on break from her studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. As an intern, she\u2019ll spend a couple of months trying to organize what marketing has spent the last year messing up. Let\u2019s all wish her good luck.<\/p>\n
What are you studying at school?<\/strong> Where are you originally from?<\/strong> What attracted you to Backblaze?<\/strong> How did you get into computers?<\/strong>
\nI just finished my first year at McGill and I\u2019m studying environment biodiversity and conservation with a minor in communication studies.<\/p>\n
\nMy parents are from St. Petersburg, Russia but I was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa.<\/p>\n
\nMy older brother, Yev, has worked for Backblaze for a number of years and he recommended that I apply for an internship and what better internship to have than one in Silicon Valley with your brother\u2019s friends and coworkers!<\/p>\n
\nWatching Yev play videogames my entire childhood definitely opened up my eyes to computers. It was only when he would let me play Worms Armageddon, Grand Theft Auto, and Sims that I really started to figure them out. I also taught myself basic HTML a few years ago in order to make some graphics look pretty on a webpage for a website.<\/p>\n