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 a presentation around the same time. For most presenters, maybe the intern’s mentor and one or two other people would show up. For my presentation, a large portion of the group I had worked with was there, even people I had only interacted with a couple of times. There were people standing in the back and out the door. It was a small conference room, but the fact that so many people showed an interest in my work was very meaningful to me, and is something I try to remind myself of when I’m determining if I have time to drop into an intern presentation.