Monthly Archives: October 2024
Interns
It’s typical to conclude an engineering internship with a presentation summarizing your work and accomplishments from the summer. Attendance at these presentations is sometimes embarrassingly small, to the point where it makes you wonder what the point is. I was fortunate. Everyone in my intern cohort at JPL, students placed all over the lab, gave…
Help Others
I’ve slowly been building a mentoring relationship with an active astronaut I was connected with through work. Astronauts are typified by an articulate and confident manner, and this man is no exception. During one of our conversations, he mused how we may be better off if the bookstore had a ” help others” section at…
Heaven in your pocket
I’ve had this interview from an NPR series in my virtual pocket for some time now. The conversation revolved around the author and her siblings’ feelings about spirituality after their parents’ death. I can’t say I relate to much of the conversation – the idea of a mystical “force” or “energy” doesn’t appeal to me….