Oof. Had a hilariously similar experience doing data entry at my first internship, which was at a financial services firm. I knew nothing about programming, bu

Oof. Had a hilariously similar experience doing data entry at my first internship, which was at a financial services firm. I knew nothing about programming, but I had taken an intro stats class that had a few assignments in R. A super simple R script did half of my day's work in seconds (plus some debugging because of course I did next to no error handling). In retrospect, I've realized that if I knew a thing of two about regular expressions at the time, I would have been able to automate my whole summer internship. So it goes.