Organization Day

Without proper organization, tackling a large project can become a nightmare, especially if you are someone like me, who can only function under schedules, to-do lists galore, and color-coded folders.  Personally, I get a little overwhelmed without a structured foundation.  That’s why, we spent our meeting yesterday discussing and laying out an online workspace for this project.

We kicked off our meeting at the Forest Hills Public Library (which, side note, has been “my” library since I was a child and has developed tremendously since my last visit into a public haven for bibliophiles and budding academics alike.)  We decided that a collective g-mail/Google account would be our best option for an online workspace because of the variety it offers.  All three of us have access to this new account and plan to use it to send out e-mails from the team (until we can get an e-mail address linked to our website).  When we start contacting interns and mentors about our project, it will be a lot easier to collect all of their responses in one central location.  It will avoid our own personal e-mail inboxes from being flooded with responses from this project.  We also created a Google Drive for all documents pertaining to this project.  This online database will hopefully continue to grow throughout the summer.    

We also created this very blog to chronicle our journey this summer.  We plan to post regularly after every meeting in order to keep our mentors updated on our progress (as well as any other curious visitors to our blog).  Note that our goal is to eventually to create a blog on theinfinetwork.com, so this blog is sort of only a temporary arrangement.

Lastly, we made arrangements for a “special” meeting this Friday.  Stay tuned to find more!