Keep Pushing

The exhaustion has finally set in. I found myself feeling exceptionally tired the last several days this week, which made it difficult to concentrate on my work. Luckily, I was able to continue plowing through my tasks and complete all of my goals for the week. Having...
Getting in the Groove

Getting in the Groove

This week I have really gotten in the groove at work. I created my own system to keep track of the tasks I need to complete and when they need to be completed, and I have also enjoyed getting to mark many of those tasks as ‘complete’ this week. I have found that I...
Diving In

Diving In

For the first half of this week I felt like my internship was off to a slow start, which is typical for any new hire during the onboarding process, but on Wednesday, my workload went from 0 to 100 (for those unfamiliar with this phrase, it just means that things...
Halfway There

Halfway There

Our time in Costa Rica is half complete; can you believe it? I guess time really does fly when you’re having fun. We finished week one at Boston Scientific Costa Rica (BSC). My internship is within the R&D Design Assurance (DA) department at the Heredia site,...

Implementation: Eviva La Vida

  The medical device product development process consists of three main steps: identification, innovation, and implementation. We spent our first several weeks in Costa Rica focused on identifying unmet needs throughout various hospitals in the country, including...