So, You can see from Jenn's posts that our move has been an adventure and that everything has been going pretty well so far. She neglected to mention that Weston helped a lot getting the apartment finished and we had a lot of other people helping us along the way. The trip was great and we have enjoyed the time we have spent in Massachusetts so far and look forward to doing some exploring in the future.

I started work the Monday after we got here. I was introduced to many new people and an industry that I knew almost nothing about. The Dow campus here in Marlborough is an advanced (or specialty) materials site. That means that instead of producing huge quantities of commodity chemicals, usually sold at a low cost and high volumes, we produce a smaller volume of expensive products sold in more of a niche industry. This particular site produces electronics materials used in the Photolithography process in microelectronics fabrication. Most of that made very little sense for to me 2 weeks ago and I still have a long ways to go before I really understand what goes into it.

The team I am working with tests the products we make to ensure they meet the specifications required by the customers (IBM, Samsung, Micron, etc). I get to run tests in the lab and in a fab where I get to wear an awesome bunny suit (as seen above). It takes some getting used to but it is really not as bad as I thought it was going to be.

Everyone at work seems really nice and I have learned a lot. There have been a lot of opportunities to get to know my co-workers better and some of them have really taken me under their wings to teach me about the industry.