In the summer of 2025 I had the wonderful opportunity to work in our nation's capital, and an even cooler opportunity to be working at the george washington university’s foggy bottom campus. I worked for a company called Lavner Education, who specializes in STEM summer camps for students across the United States. Lavner makes agreements with universities across the nation in order to provide a wonderful learning environment for students over summer break aged 5-14 years old. I personally found my supervisor via Handshake, a job board site offered to all students at UMDCP, and I highly recommend it. To future scholars students looking for internships I highly encourage you to hunt hardcore on these sites, I have made great connections simply searching and cold-opening with supervisors by being myself. At Lavner, I was a Summer STEM Instructor meaning it was my responsibility to teach and look over a set of students over the course of the summer. My tasks included things such as 3D design camp, where we utilized online CAD software in order to allow campers to make prints over the weeks. I also taught a large portion of Minecraft camp, that instructed students on commands and programming languages that live inside the minecraft console. I would say the greatest thing about this internship was the ability to pass along a lot of fun stem information. As a mechanical engineering major, it is definitely in my interests to share and play around with CAD software. I will say one of the drawbacks would be working with children, nothing against them themselves, however it was rather difficult to get an 8 year old excited about python at 7 in the morning. This internship showed me that teaching is most certainly not in my future, at least for younger students, and it gave me an extreme appreciation for those who educate on STEM principals on a daily basis. I have also found a much deeper love for CAD, and I am aiming to secure an internship hopefully doing design for a company that contracts 3D work for companies. I would like to make it known that you can work somewhere and completely feel you don't want to continue in that field if you dislike that internship, never restrict yourself simply because it was a “goal”, allow your goals to change if they need to. I would also like to say that it is very very important to make connections, as the internship market is currently direly over-saturated!! I have sought entry-level positions and been in competition with individuals completing their masters degree, the earlier you get into the market the better! Lastly, I’d like to end this reflection with a bit of a love letter to SGC. Being a commuter from roughly an hour away, making friends was really hard as someone that has to hustle back and forth from classes and home. With scholars not only did I get to meet some familiar faces, it also played a heavy role in meeting my girlfriend, whom I’ve been dating for a year and a half as of this paper. Scholars put learning and community into one big pot and offered several exciting experiences over the last two years. Thank you Dr. Merck and Dr. Holtz, SGC will be sorely missed as I go on to suffer as a Mech E here in the future. Arrivederci!