This was Monday of this week! …Was definitely still on vacay mode.I took this day to get organized a little and actually had a meeting with my mentor, Dr. Swati Mohan. She was the lead GNC engineer for Mars 2020 and you can actually see her face in the Mars 2020 videos of people in mission control :D. She did her undergrad and PHD at MIT which is extremely badass and she’s going to teach me more about mission control topics!

This was Thursday of last week and the day before the holiday weekend so I was definitely in vacay mode a little bit. But one of the things I was super proud of today was leading my first office hours with the toolsmiths team. We created some standards for Jira ticket writing, discussed ideas for how we want to implement agile, and discussed the idea of doing a group project. Lots to share at the tool tagup next week! I also got presented with a new task which includes changing something in our tools folder.

Lo siento to myself for missing 4 days worth of content. Last week I was preparing for the Fourth of July weekend because my partner was visiting from New Jersey. So this post was meant to be written from Wednesday of last week. Nothing too notable from this day except…

I had one of those intern moments today. I tried to be cute and send the meeting agenda in the cal invite that’s sent out to 20+ people. But it never really updated and so I just kept sending these cal emails with information that never changed. Everyone was super…

I love my job but I appreciate Fridays a lot. It’s nice to take a break and not focus on work after a week of info overload. Even though I can’t help it but think about work anyway. Today was going over the tool that Josh explained to me the…

Apologies this was meant to be for 6/24. Imposter syndrome has been REAL YALL. I mean I know this feeling never goes away but damN CAN I GET A BREAK FROM THIS FEELING FOR ONCE? I think it’s just because this was the day before Josh had to leave and…

Today was definitely a win in my books. The key highlights were ERG Mentorship Panel Leading a team specific meeting Getting to run a procedure on the Testbed The ERG mentorship panel consisted of very awesome people from JPL who are part of the different employee resource groups. One interesting…

My partner made fun of me today for not knowing how rocket propulsion works even though I work at the Jet Propulsion Lab. And at first I was upset but then I realized….why don’t I know this? But then I realized that if I want to be an astronaut….I …

Woo today was a little bit anxiety filled. Today I got to lead my very first Testbed Tools meeting that happens every Monday which usually consists of about 15 + people. I introduced myself, a new person who will be a part time tool smith, announcements, and intro’d Josh for…