 I didn't quite know what to expect, I also had to write, like many others had to write something and I wrote like my ideal situation but I wasn't expecting that we were actually going to do that and much to my surprise this was actually very embedded in what we're going to do and also I found it very nice that what we were doing was actually making an impact in the real world so it wasn't like other interns program I know where you are doing very boring work and it seems like taking forever it really felt that we were taking seriously and that we actually contributed something to college production and also in the society and with the youth organization so that's what I really really liked and I hadn't expected beforehand When it turned out like during the summer the expectations were kind of fulfilled because we worked as a team in designing like many learning activities so we tested them, we visited youth media organizations so for me it was like an excellent kind of experience of matching expectations and realizing them during the summer it was great So I was going and kind of expecting to kind of one work individually and two maybe plan to go into like personal details maybe more emotional and I wasn't expecting to like work this collaboratively or actually like make an impact to like communities to youth I was very surprised when we brought this little review into information quality I was like what's information quality but now we developed all these curriculum modules and I was really surprised just that we got to go to Roxbury, got to go to Brooklyn all eleven of us I think it's eleven right I actually went to actually teach this curriculum in schools and it was an excellent experience like just going beyond my personal boundaries and seeing other people and like it was world expanding So I think one of the biggest challenges that I faced coming into the summer was that I come from an environment so I'm still in college where everything is very structured and you know you get your assignment there's a very specific question that you're trying to answer or a goal that you're trying to achieve kind of with a very straightforward rubric and a very clear expectations of what you're going to be doing and so I think it definitely took some getting used to to kind of know how to best utilize my freedom and independence and to kind of take advantage of all that and still get to where I wanted to be at the end of it and the kind of product I wanted so I think I don't know that was definitely the biggest challenge and hopefully something that I overcame a little bit this summer So I didn't really know at first what to expect when I came to the Youth and Media Lab partly because I came much later than everybody else since I had to finish up my sophomore year at school so I didn't know how easy it would be and at first when I came even though I had met Sandra and Nathaniel a moment before I hadn't met the rest of the team and exactly what I was supposed to be working on so the first day I came I noticed like everyone was doing their work and I felt kind of lost like what am I going to what should I be working on and things like that but then eventually I think what I realized was that since it was very much team oriented it was actually very easy to get back into routine I was like whoa okay I don't know what will it be like and right now I have to say well it worked awesome I mean it was really fun doing all of the work also hanging out with people and I think I never worked that hard before I mean like so focused on something but also had I never had like that much fun working on stuff like this what made me really excited about the lab was that kind of looking at other stuff that had been created by other organizations particularly MIT looking at what their lab focused on youth and technology had grown into over the years I mean just an incredible thing it's this global network that they've created and I saw something kind of a vision like a really far down the road vision of what like the youth and media lab could be and when I came in I felt like I was able to put like at least a little bit of myself into it and working with everyone and I feel like we all were able to kind of shape a little bit of what we all thought like the lab could become because we wouldn't be here if we didn't think that this could be something significant I really recommend like for future interns that they are not shy this is something that Amar one of the people that the staff members in the core team told me don't be shy and try to go to all the events that the Bergman Center is doing because actually it's a great hub like the network that the center has is amazing and you can meet like very great researchers, professors, entrepreneurs so I really enjoyed meeting a lot of people during this summer and like making a lot of connections for future projects