- February 17, 2022
"My MISTI experience this summer left me with experiences that I could not have found in the United States."
IBJ consist of five subdivisions: the Home Worker's Community (a large sales division), Web Staff (which includes recruitment, HR), ITRA (the Information Technology Research Association), and xLabs (the outreach project, particularly with IIT students and other schools in India), and Internet Academy (a school for learning languages such as Java, JavaScript, and PHP). IBJ has been a MISTI partner for many years, and it was at IBJ that a student created the MISTI Japan logo (the koi image).
As far as specific internship details go, I worked in IA (the Internet Academy subdivision of IBJ) on a handful of software projects as a member of the design and development team. The main project was a programming proficiency exam that interns each wrote 100-200 questions to test proficiency in specific programming languages. For privacy reasons, no more details of the project will appear in this report. Interns from IIT and Harvard created the initial frontend (our web page and user interface) and backend (our databases and exam interface), and the MIT interns worked on these programming fronts throughout the end of the project. Other projects included an admin-controlled form generator (in which an admin can customize the design and contents of a contact form for users), a rating app (in which users can rate their instructors and view data by class and/or instructor), a class selection app (in which users can preview the costs and learned skills of different combinations of classes), and other refactoring projects to improve the stability and flexibility of the company's main website.