Today I realized that this project I’m working on is not another 8- or 10-week summer internship. I get to work on it for all of next year (and who knows, maybe for longer than that). So, I don’t need to learn everything in a week and feel caught up, and it’s ok that there’s a ton that I don’t know quite yet, including my specific research topic. I need to get out of MIT mode and slow down, which sometimes I find very hard to do. I always feel better when I’m able to cross a bunch of things off a list – it feels like progress has been made – but I don’t think that’s how this is going to work, and I’m just going to have to get used to it.
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Yeah, summers are just long enough for me to be able to appreciate the fact that real life isn’t always as fast-paced and stressful as MIT is. I mean, it can be, but not every single day. It’s kind of nice, actually. Now that workweek, orientation, and rush are about to start, even though it’s technically still summer I’m already beginning to feel MIT closing its jaws on my newly-discovered serenity. Sucks, really. Ah well. I think this will be a good year. Apparently I’m an upperclassman now. How delightful 🙂