"as soon as i arrived at lakehead i had a lot of help from the nice ladies in the career zone. they really helped me find my job and set up my co-op and i was really happy to have their support and to now have my co-op experience. i am doing my co-op work as a software engineer at pointclickcare and right now the project i am in is machine learning related so it is quite close to what i’m learning at lakehead. the work i do is with development for cloud based machine learning services, resolving security risks and vulnerabilities for the internal microservices. my favourite part about my co-op is getting to experience the working culture in canada. back home, my work environment had a strict hierarchy and there was a lot of bureaucracy which i wasn’t really fond of. but the working culture in canada is much more relaxed and everyone talks to each other as friends and equals which really impresses me."