Simone Giertz

decent at a fair amount of things, but definitely not a specialist in any ways.

And this, it was such a specialist type of area that I felt like the other parts of my brain kind of just dwindled and died.

So I think most of all, if people are thinking about going to college, and especially if you're here in the States and it's so fucking expensive, really

Okay, there's two things I want to do.

One is like actually go to a workplace where people are doing the job that you think you want to do if you want to become a doctor.

Like be at a hospital and like try to see how doctors work and if you actually like it because I feel like people have a lot of ideas of what it's going to be like and it just doesn't match with reality.

And then I think when people figure out what they want to do, there's kind of –

That's two separate questions, or there's two questions that you could split out of that.

One is like, what do you actually want to do?

That for me, for the last 10 years, is building stuff.

But then there's a second part to that question, which is what context do you want to do that?

Do you want to build stuff at a startup or at a big corporation?

Do you want to build stuff for an art gallery or for the movies or for YouTube?

And

I think that's often like people only learn how to answer the first question, but then it's like the context means as much because I was building stuff at Punch Through Design and I wasn't getting that like deep fulfillment.

Like I felt like I wasn't fully using myself and like hitting all of my gears because I just wasn't that motivated about building stuff for other people.

And I changed the context and everything changed.

I mean, I have so much college FOMO though.

Like I think it's, I chose a different set of experiences.

And when I applied to MIT, I was, I think I was 24 because I was like, oh, maybe I should become an electrical engineer because I really liked electronics.