I work for the MYEEP program as a tutor/guidance counselor for ~30 high school students in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco.

Our program serves students who have multiple barriers to employment (e.g. low-income, single parent household, arrest record, english as a second language, and other criteria).

I’m fundraising this month for a scholarship fund to send our students to college! If you donate at least $10 online, send me a screenshot and a mailing address to katie (at) myeep (dot) org, and I’ll send you a hand-knit mug/drink cozy like this one so you can show off your support in style (color/size may vary).

Your money will go directly towards sending a deserving student to college! Donate here and choose MYEEP in the dropdown box!: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/jcyc

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Searching for and Applying to Internships

Apply even if you think you’re under-qualified

When applying for internships you may feel under-qualified and hopeless about being selected. You shouldn’t let these feelings get in the way of applying. You may not get the position, but researching the skills you would need to be selected and crafting a cover letter tailored to that position will help you figure out where the gaps are in your skills. You can use this information to try to fill in those gaps.

For instance, my heart was set on an internship this Summer involving embedded programming for satellites on the International Space Station. The internship information page listed the skills they were looking for in an applicant. I used these keywords to find books and online courses where I could teach myself. Employers are really impressed by hands-on experience more than coursework so I rolled all of that information together and developed a research proposal for an embedded robotics project and presented it to a faculty member on my campus. By working on that project next year I will be doing exactly the kind of work NASA employers in my field are looking for.

Don’t get discouraged!

There are lots of internships out there and lots of people applying for them. Each program has different needs so expect to apply to numerous programs before you receive a positive response. Over the course of 4 months I applied for 15 different summer internships. I was rejected from all them except for one: a paid NASA internship in Mountain View, CA. I applied for 6 different internships this summer specifically through NASA. I did not hear back about any of them! However, one day I got a call from someone at NASA asking if I’d be interested in applying for an internship that had just been funded. I said yes, and a week later I got an email with the job offer. You will face rejection It is unavoidable. But if you don’t keep trying, you will never get an acceptance letter.

Doing the work you are passionate about is a long game. It takes strategy and determination. Whatever stage you are in, you can work right now on the skills you will need next summer, two summers from now, and when you are applying for your dream job.

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theamazingindi:

‘You need to read YOUR manga dude!’ replied william shatner 

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Top 5 least favorite TNG episode formats

5. Alexander episodes

4. Holodeck episodes

3. Troi ‘relationship’ episodes

2. Episodes were Crusher has sex with a ghost

1. Wesley episodes

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Gwendoline Christie reblog if you agree

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"There are some proofs you only read once in your life."

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"Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude."

Tacitus, Agricola, 98 A.D.
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moteinthedark:

A couple years ago, I taught at a math summer program for high school girls.

Now, this was a fancy, competitive program, and all those girls were smart. They had eye-popping resumes. They learned fast.

But there was one girl who really stood out, because of her manner. She…

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matthen: “8 Earth years are roughly equal to 13 Venus years, meaning the two planets approximately trace out this pattern with 5-fold symmetry as they orbit the Sun. [more] [code] ”

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8 Earth years are roughly equal to 13 Venus years, meaning the two planets approximately trace out this pattern with 5-fold symmetry as they orbit the Sun. [more] [code]

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