Hurry Up and Wait

One of the "big ideas" that has been ingrained into my brain during the time with my internship is "hurry up, and wait". While interning with CEMHS, we have been working on various different projects, and each of these projects involves working with private businesses, or government agencies. As a result, we work very diligently on these projects to push timelines and get things done; but, in return, we oftentimes wait much longer to get responses to continue the next phase of the project. Therefore, this idea of "hurry up, and wait" reflects exactly what we have been doing for this semester. Working very hard, very quickly to get the ball out of our court and back into the court of the other people we are working with has been a constant theme. This definitely creates some very hectic and stressful times when we are working on completing our end of the project, but then also creates some very large lulls in the project when we are waiting days, or sometimes even weeks, for information to return.