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[merzb]

I have an interview with a big cool thing organization for a summer "remote" internship/hackathon thing, and my friend told me one of the questions he got asked was:

What projects are you proud of?Low key hate having to think about this. Honestly, nothing. If I want to pass to the next phase, I better say something "cool" and not too nerdy. Like,

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[deepseasiren]

I go through incredibly long periods of time being uninspired and being in a rut.

[brainbeast]

Good luck with the interview!

[4kudzu]

Pretty much when we grow up we become more practical, I think, and doing useless fun stuff does become pointless and feels like a waste of time.
But if it helps to invigorate your soul, you know, not everything has to be useful all the time.

[invertickle]

I can kind of relate to the bit about being less inspired. I think what happened to me was that as I grew older/gained more knowledge I was also taught to try and put everything in the frame-work of how significant something is. Like is this something worth funding? Can you directly improve lives with this? What are the applications. And to be honest, while I ALWAYS and FOREVER will value basic science research for the sake of cool science stuff, I think somehow the "significance" part of stuff got beaten into my brain. With that said, my fiance works for a tech company doing AI and robotics and like every now and then they make something cool just for shits and giggles and I am so jealous of the joy he feels while doing stuff like that. Does that make any sense at all?

[invertickle]

Also legit cool video :)