Surprisingly, I was more tired than I thought trying to wake up for my second day at FHI 360. I thought that getting up at 8am every day would be a lot better than getting up at 6:30am to go to school, but boy I was mistaken. It’s still just as difficult, let me tell you.
Day two at FHI 360 was beginning to feel a lot more like a real job and a lot less of the stupor of being the “new kids on the block”. We had received a few projects to work on for the duration of our time here, and today we received an introduction to a more long term project we’d be working on. Celia told us about a conference that they had led in which they encouraged teams to utilize social media or other forms of technology in order to assist women in choosing methods of contraception that work best for them. We were to do the same thing. After some time brainstorming, we developed a Tinder-esque idea that would allow the user to swipe up, down, or remain the same in order to express their opinion on a bevy of side effects that contraceptive methods may have. The idea is that after a few rounds of this, an algorithm would be able to provide the user their “match”. It’s still in development though, but I’ll be sure to let you guys know how it goes. I’m excited to be working and helping out over here!
See you tomorrow,
Caroline