Work and Play in San José

Friday – 6:00 am – Costa Rica vs. Brazil. The score was tied at 0-0 for 85 minutes until Brazil scored twice in the last two minutes. Hundreds of Boston Scientific employees watched this soccer game together in the cafeteria, and the energy in the room was incredible....

Corporate Experience, Here We Come

My first week at Boston Scientific is complete! A surprising challenge this week was to reflect on the experience; I think this is because the project I’m joining encompasses topics and skills that are new to me, and because I did a lot of acclimating and learning by...

Work is Fun: Design and Cultural Exchange

This week was all about design. In last week’s blog, I mentioned that design was one of two foci of GMI that I wanted to practice. This week, we took a short course in which we designed a medical device. I learned so much and it was great fun! To start, we met Costa...

Needs Finding Already!

I’ve been in the GMI program full time for less than a week and I’m already pleased to be learning exactly what I’ve been looking forward to. The GMI program drew me because of the emphases on needs finding and the design process. These were the focuses of our first...