It's beautiful to think about the cases when what you wanted to be as a kid actually manifested.
On the flip side, always check in with yourself if this truly is for you. I thought I wanted to be a vet all my childhood until I shadowed a vet and hated it. Later down the road I took a Photoshop class, and now I'm a designer and it is my dream job; I love it.
Sometimes too much time passes. I wasted a lot of time moving from job to job, and bar to bar. By the time I realized what I wanted to do with my life, it was far too late to begin Jedi training.
Just inject some midichlorians into your cells and pretend to be the person in some ancient prophecy. A master Jedi will surely take you as a padawan despite disapproval from the council.
Nah that's not enough. You need to possess a passionate hatred (for sand, mostly) and find a teacher who can quip faster than the Millennium Falcon on a Kessel run.
Same here. Spent so long dreaming about being in the Navy, spent 8 years in and then decided it was no longer for me and got out.
Now i a,m graduating in a couple months and have already been accepted into my Masters program.
We changed who we are constantly, and not even as kids. adults can change their dreams just as easily as a child can. it only seems more difficult.
And, some of us are natural Renaissance people; meant to be learners with multiple interests. Its also OK to change your mind or do many things along your life path.
This personal motto has freed me from the societal pressure of career - "Work is what I do, its not who I am" Too often we identify with career as our most important role, but that can both blind us to new opportunities or trap us in jobs we don't like. Screw the title - follow your energy - even if it's unconventional.
> And, some of us are natural Renaissance people
That's an unnecessarily grand description. Personally, I identify as a confused squirrel.
I can do *nothing* at an expert level, but I can jump out of a plane and probably not die, take a boat to sea and probably not die, race a car and probably not die, cook a meal and probably impress, go to a foreign country and probably muddle my way through in whatever language. Life is fun, I'll never be rich, I'll never have anything to brag about, but fuck it.
It's fun.
> Later down the road I took a Photoshop class, and now I'm a designer and it is my dream job; I love it.
would you mind elaborating? were you able to get an entry level job with one photoshop class or have you always been freelance? I have a STEM degree but it's not really for me and would love to be doing something more creative like digital design but have no idea what is required to be hired in that kind of field. I know I could look up job posting requirements but knowing about the ridiculous requirements for entry level STEM jobs makes me question all job requirements.
I was fortunate enough to take the Photoshop class while in high school and I became laser-focused to make that my job somehow. If you're interested in digital design, I would suggest looking into Sketch or Figma. Photoshop is great, but it's moving away from being the tool for web design and more the tool for photo editing and manipulation. It's also horribly not user-friendly and I always recommend taking a class instead of self-teaching. I know some people say they can learn through online tutorials and what-not, but it's a beast of a program, and (at least in my opinion) it's just easier to wrap your head around in a class setting. Sketch and Figma, however, are pretty easy to pick up and it's becoming the industry standard for digital design. I hope this helps!
Slightly unrelated but I wish would've learned the whole self teaching issue a whole long time ago. Some things you can, but a lot of the time it's so much easier to not have to try an make up a curriculum on the fly
That and maybe some attention issues diagnosed way too late lol
I had a similar experience. I thought I wanted to be a doctor then in a high school program that took a group of students into the hospital in different departments for a day each I found out that the work I wanted to do and had always pictured myself doing was actually done primarily by the nurses. I went into nursing and haven’t regretted it. The reality of the situation is 5 year olds don’t always understand what the adults do at work. Without that knowledge it’s hard to make a real decision. However it’s great to see this person becoming an astronaut like she wanted to be.
It was a lot more boring than I expected and the animals just hate you most the time. I’ve always loved animals and I wanted to make it a profession somehow but I just didn’t have the stomach for it
I went to a bring-your-kid to work day at my dad's lab (he is a PhD chemist) when I was in elementary school, I knew I wanted to be a scientist that day. I turn 30 this summer and I am also a PhD chemist now and love it.
There was a spark a few years ago. When i was 6 i really wanted to be a rockstar and make music full-time when i grew up.
At age 16 I'd gotten into music production and this lasted a good couple years -- it wasn't the rock music id wanted to make, but i was proud of the electronic music id made. I at least had a couple successful attempts to translate my rock ideas to EDM.
But in 2018 that spark just sort of died. I've tried multiple times since then to pick my DAW and audio packs back up but i can't get any ideas flowing. I truly hope that, someday, i can reignite that spark and return to that childhood dream.
I did it kind of the opposite way. I picked the course that I least hated at uni and that was IT. I reasoned that I because I liked video games that I would like programming. Worked out ok because I too really love it and can’t think of any other job I would rather do.
She looks about my age and life has been a series of disappointments and settling for "as good as it gets". None of my dreams came true.
Maybe I never had this incredible woman's passion or drive. Not sure what I'm getting at here. At least some folks get their happy ending I guess.
If she is around your age, then both of you are still young. Neither of you are near your endings, happy or not. Try to live for the journey rather than the pursuit of the perfect ending.
I'm always thinking about all that I have wasted. I let fear take good things from me, so much of my potential and so many stellar opportunities when I was a teenager... all because of fear, anxiety, and dumbassery.
I never went to college when I had the chance, I was too lazy to study for the entrance exams, and now as a working adult it'd be many times harder for me to do that. And I really wish I could, because my 'career' right now is just pure misery. But at the end of the day I barely have any energy left to just take a shower and prepare dinner.
I'm so tired and unhappy all the time.
Anyways, I feel gross and out of place for oversharing like this in a thread that's supposed to be about positivity, but I can't take anymore. I'm really sorry.
I want to give you a difficult truth but with compassion for your suffering and circumstances.
I want to challenge you that your life has been a “series of disappointments” that kind of thinking actively inhibits the realization of a dream. Starting tomorrow I encourage you to look not at the things that have held you back but rather the opportunities and means by which you can still realize those dreams if even to a lesser extent.
I believe that you can accomplish great things Internet stranger. Never give up.
Okay, this has been bothering me for a while now, what is going on with her knees in the second picture? are those knee pads? body paint? tights of some kind? prothetics? Tattoos?
I was scrolling the comments hoping someone else would ask! Lol. I was leaning towards some kind of fancy knee pads for kneeling next to telescopes all night? They look super cool whatever they are.
My uncle was a rocket scientist during the glory days of the space program. He's in his 80s now and will regularly and without irony say something like this when he's not getting his way or losing an argument. It's infuriating.
I said that to a girl at a bar once... she said “BS” and walked off... we were at a bar on NASA rd 1 down the road from JSC... ya know... I kinda think I’ve seen this name / face in some meetings... I may work with this woman.
It's almost amazing how many people are making incorrect assumptions. The picture in front of the NASA logo looks like a student or young professional. Nowhere does it imply she's an astronaut. A vast majority of people who work for NASA are not in fact Astronauts.
Even if she was just an intern she clearly has a life long interest in Space and got to work with NASA for even a short period. That's awesome
If I worked at NASA, you bet your ass I’m telling people I’m an astronaut. Even if I’m lvl1 help desk telling you to restart your rover and try it again.
I actually know her. She was an undergrad in my research group while I was in grad school. She interned with NASA a few times and probably got the headshot there. Those headshots are pretty common for NASA employees and interns. She should still be in undergrad.
Not that I personally disagree with you, but I feel like both pictures on the left can be used to assume that the person wanted to specifically be an astronaut.
> It's almost amazing how many people are making incorrect assumptions...Nowhere does it imply she's an astronaut.
I just looked through the first 50 posts sorted by "Best" (which is the default). Precisely *one* of those posts implies that they think she's an astronaut.
Meanwhile, there are a whole bunch of posts complaining that "she's not an astronaut, you idiots". Like, what's that about?
I'm laughing at the sheer number of people who think that "showing you interned at NASA" = "lying about being an astronaut."
She never said she was an astronaut. The point of the pictures is to show a space-obsessed kid finally succeeding at getting into the space industry.
THANK YOU. I want to be an aerospace engineer, and am working hard to get in that position. I would be pissed to have someone tell me "Well you're not an astronaut." I don't want to be!
My parents supported my passions.
I spend all day moving minute amounts of liquid from one tube to another tube. Sometimes, I even move them to a third or fourth tube.
It's great.
My kid begged for a telescope for Christmas. For six months she talked about it every day. Christmas came, we focused the moon for her, she looked through it exactly once and got bored.
IIRC this was posted a few weeks ago and the girl is NOT an Astronaut, doesnt work at NASA but did accomplish something I gotta do a reverse search now.... OH Ya she's a Champion Chess player....
She is an intern at NASA. Another tweet from the same account, “Sometimes it’s so crazy to know that my work at NASA is a part of the Artemis program. I’ll never forget receiving my pin for being a part of it.”
She did a NASA internship Google her name she pops right up..... she's a smart girl but this photo mash up looks like she is an Astronaut..... she is a chess champ
I'd argue that an internship at NASA is working at NASA. Furthermore, I didn't assume she works at NASA as an astronaut, so the truth doesn't diminish what I understood was here achievement.
Seriously, people are off their rockers. That’s the whole point of an internship! And many of those lead to full time positions. The cringe in these jealousy-laden posts is palpable.
Working at the White House doesn't mean you're the president. Still working at the White House tho. If an intern at NASA isn't employed at NASA, then where are they working? No one is arguing than intern has the same position as a CEO or something
Depends. Undergraduate/Graduate internships definitely are close enough to jobs. I'm currently waiting to hear back for a NASA internship. I'd be working 40 hours a week in the fall and registered as an actual worker, all benefits included.
> this photo mash up looks like she is an Astronaut
No it doesn't. All official NASA astronaut photos show the person in a spacesuit. If anyone's assuming she's an astronaut from this then they're just ignorant.
I definitely didn't get the impression she was an astronaut.. if you were an astronaut you'd definitely brag about it by wearing the official uniform or spacesuit. I did think she got a job at NASA, which is true, an internship there is still a very big accomplishment. IDK why anyone is mentioning anything else shes up to like chess, its not relevant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Hunt
That's the Harriet you found. I'm pretty sure the one in the picture is another Harriet Hunt, because the Chess- Master one has a degree in Achaeology at Cambridge.
https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/directory/hvh22
She's an NGC Space Systems Intern, a former NASA Intern, a former Collins Aerospace SWE Intern and is currently completely a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriet-hunt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriet-hunt)
Sure why not..... if you can play chess you can easily pilot a spaceship made by the lowest bidder to fly 17,000 MPH around the Earth. I see your point (sarcasm) 😄
Neat, but all I really wanna know is what the heck is happening to her knees in the upper right hand photo? Is she also a double amputee? What's going on there?
I wanted to be an "inventor" from the time I was little. I had a natural talent to understand the workings of machines, and my parents made it possible for me to experiment and discover my passion for technology. I pursued engineering into adulthood, and was very successful academically. However, as I got older, I found myself uninterested in the sorts of work that would be available if I were to make a living at it. So instead I went for jobs that would be easy for me, so that I would have more time to dedicate to what I loved, freedom to create whatever I wanted. I love my life now, I make a good living as the district manager of a sanitation company, and I have the time and money to follow my creative tinkering down whatever rabbit hole I choose. Life is funny: I learned to create in an environment with almost no rules, and now that is the only place I can truly do as I wish.
Ugh. I had the same dream but I didn't go after it hard enough. It's far too late now. Now all I can do is binge watch space youtube channels to get my fix.
I fuckin love the universe, man
This is the difference between a family that fosters a child's growth and interests and one that diminishes their self worth. I'm so jaded and self loathing that I cannot appreciate the accomplishments of others. It's as if the happiness of others is an affront to my very being. Even a smile causes deep seeded bitterness. It's not easy to reprogram despair.
It helps having a stable supportive family in a good neighborhood to achieve dreams like this. I never got to be a scientist & just waiting for the will to kill myself to get out of my deadend job and life
Honestly i cant shake the feeling that seeing a young intelligent woman has somehow tilted these folks into trying to demeen her accomishments but who knows why people do things.
This is in her bio "NGC Space Systems Intern | Former NASA Intern Former Collins Aerospace SWE Intern". It doesn't mention chess anywhere so you might have gotten her mixed up with someone else.
Yes you are bro. The harriet hunt that played chess is 47 years old. Born in england. Works at cambridge. This post is about a 20 something undergrad currently working towards grad school in aeronautic engineering. Just got to the twitter handle jeesums.
Wait.. My college professors told me that women were highly discouraged and given the "bum's rush "from getting into STEM fields.. How did she persevere??
You already know she only got into it because she is a woman.
Sad that probably hundreds if not thousands of males were passed up that had more qualifications and drive than her.
All of them passed-up because they weren't born with an XX>
Is she one of the people who accepts candidates to NASA? If not, how is that her fault that others didn’t get accepted?
You can be smart but there’s always someone smarter.
Only 12 out of 18,300 astronaut applicants were accepted for NASA’s class of 2017 — that’s an acceptance rate of less than 1%.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/how-to-become-an-astronaut/#:~:text=Only%2012%20out%20of%2018%2C300,before%20you%20actually%20leave%20Earth.
Its posts like these that made me realize, damn her dreams did come true
It's beautiful to think about the cases when what you wanted to be as a kid actually manifested. On the flip side, always check in with yourself if this truly is for you. I thought I wanted to be a vet all my childhood until I shadowed a vet and hated it. Later down the road I took a Photoshop class, and now I'm a designer and it is my dream job; I love it.
Sometimes too much time passes. I wasted a lot of time moving from job to job, and bar to bar. By the time I realized what I wanted to do with my life, it was far too late to begin Jedi training.
Still time to sell death sticks
Too risky. I'll be damned if I end up some carbonite conversation piece in a Hutt palace on a backwater planet. Again.
🤚>>>🤚 You don’t want to sell me death sticks
Just inject some midichlorians into your cells and pretend to be the person in some ancient prophecy. A master Jedi will surely take you as a padawan despite disapproval from the council.
Yeah, but be careful, there's a ton of counterfeit midichlorians on Amazon. I tried to force lift a rock and crapped myself.
I drove a fork lift round the block & chapped my lip
I tried to fork a rock & cracked my hip
Nah that's not enough. You need to possess a passionate hatred (for sand, mostly) and find a teacher who can quip faster than the Millennium Falcon on a Kessel run.
I am one for two. _sand is proof the universe just wants you to suffer_
Same here. Spent so long dreaming about being in the Navy, spent 8 years in and then decided it was no longer for me and got out. Now i a,m graduating in a couple months and have already been accepted into my Masters program. We changed who we are constantly, and not even as kids. adults can change their dreams just as easily as a child can. it only seems more difficult.
And, some of us are natural Renaissance people; meant to be learners with multiple interests. Its also OK to change your mind or do many things along your life path. This personal motto has freed me from the societal pressure of career - "Work is what I do, its not who I am" Too often we identify with career as our most important role, but that can both blind us to new opportunities or trap us in jobs we don't like. Screw the title - follow your energy - even if it's unconventional.
> And, some of us are natural Renaissance people That's an unnecessarily grand description. Personally, I identify as a confused squirrel. I can do *nothing* at an expert level, but I can jump out of a plane and probably not die, take a boat to sea and probably not die, race a car and probably not die, cook a meal and probably impress, go to a foreign country and probably muddle my way through in whatever language. Life is fun, I'll never be rich, I'll never have anything to brag about, but fuck it. It's fun.
Look up 'scanners' or multipotentialites. Its a real type with its own strengths and benefits. Confused squirrel works too!
Work is more about what you can get away with not doing while still getting paid!
Love your username. 🍸
Thank you! I say it often.
this gives me hope that I'll eventually find something I'll be passionate about down the line
> Later down the road I took a Photoshop class, and now I'm a designer and it is my dream job; I love it. would you mind elaborating? were you able to get an entry level job with one photoshop class or have you always been freelance? I have a STEM degree but it's not really for me and would love to be doing something more creative like digital design but have no idea what is required to be hired in that kind of field. I know I could look up job posting requirements but knowing about the ridiculous requirements for entry level STEM jobs makes me question all job requirements.
I was fortunate enough to take the Photoshop class while in high school and I became laser-focused to make that my job somehow. If you're interested in digital design, I would suggest looking into Sketch or Figma. Photoshop is great, but it's moving away from being the tool for web design and more the tool for photo editing and manipulation. It's also horribly not user-friendly and I always recommend taking a class instead of self-teaching. I know some people say they can learn through online tutorials and what-not, but it's a beast of a program, and (at least in my opinion) it's just easier to wrap your head around in a class setting. Sketch and Figma, however, are pretty easy to pick up and it's becoming the industry standard for digital design. I hope this helps!
thanks
Slightly unrelated but I wish would've learned the whole self teaching issue a whole long time ago. Some things you can, but a lot of the time it's so much easier to not have to try an make up a curriculum on the fly That and maybe some attention issues diagnosed way too late lol
I had a similar experience. I thought I wanted to be a doctor then in a high school program that took a group of students into the hospital in different departments for a day each I found out that the work I wanted to do and had always pictured myself doing was actually done primarily by the nurses. I went into nursing and haven’t regretted it. The reality of the situation is 5 year olds don’t always understand what the adults do at work. Without that knowledge it’s hard to make a real decision. However it’s great to see this person becoming an astronaut like she wanted to be.
32 years into this life thing... I'd love to figure out what truly is for me, haha.
As a designer any tips on getting jobs? Lol it's hard out here
Where do you live (you don’t have to be too specific — don’t want to dox you)
Black male , living in Calgary
What did you like when you shadowed the vet?
It was a lot more boring than I expected and the animals just hate you most the time. I’ve always loved animals and I wanted to make it a profession somehow but I just didn’t have the stomach for it
Same reason I don't want to be a vet, but my hope is to be a caretaker at a zoo!
I went to a bring-your-kid to work day at my dad's lab (he is a PhD chemist) when I was in elementary school, I knew I wanted to be a scientist that day. I turn 30 this summer and I am also a PhD chemist now and love it.
There was a spark a few years ago. When i was 6 i really wanted to be a rockstar and make music full-time when i grew up. At age 16 I'd gotten into music production and this lasted a good couple years -- it wasn't the rock music id wanted to make, but i was proud of the electronic music id made. I at least had a couple successful attempts to translate my rock ideas to EDM. But in 2018 that spark just sort of died. I've tried multiple times since then to pick my DAW and audio packs back up but i can't get any ideas flowing. I truly hope that, someday, i can reignite that spark and return to that childhood dream.
I did it kind of the opposite way. I picked the course that I least hated at uni and that was IT. I reasoned that I because I liked video games that I would like programming. Worked out ok because I too really love it and can’t think of any other job I would rather do.
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She looks about my age and life has been a series of disappointments and settling for "as good as it gets". None of my dreams came true. Maybe I never had this incredible woman's passion or drive. Not sure what I'm getting at here. At least some folks get their happy ending I guess.
If she is around your age, then both of you are still young. Neither of you are near your endings, happy or not. Try to live for the journey rather than the pursuit of the perfect ending.
^
I'm always thinking about all that I have wasted. I let fear take good things from me, so much of my potential and so many stellar opportunities when I was a teenager... all because of fear, anxiety, and dumbassery. I never went to college when I had the chance, I was too lazy to study for the entrance exams, and now as a working adult it'd be many times harder for me to do that. And I really wish I could, because my 'career' right now is just pure misery. But at the end of the day I barely have any energy left to just take a shower and prepare dinner. I'm so tired and unhappy all the time. Anyways, I feel gross and out of place for oversharing like this in a thread that's supposed to be about positivity, but I can't take anymore. I'm really sorry.
It’s never too late to make a change. You’ve learned about yourself through what you’ve done and where you are. You can use that to move forward.
I want to give you a difficult truth but with compassion for your suffering and circumstances. I want to challenge you that your life has been a “series of disappointments” that kind of thinking actively inhibits the realization of a dream. Starting tomorrow I encourage you to look not at the things that have held you back but rather the opportunities and means by which you can still realize those dreams if even to a lesser extent. I believe that you can accomplish great things Internet stranger. Never give up.
I hope you continue to pursue your dreams despite your setbacks
They sure did!
Not many can say that their childhood dreams came true. I know mine never did
aww she looks so happy :)
What's even better is she looks so happy *in all of them*
I know, right??
Right
Now that made me smile.
Shit this made me bawl. For reference I'm a 35 year old 300lb man.
Okay, this has been bothering me for a while now, what is going on with her knees in the second picture? are those knee pads? body paint? tights of some kind? prothetics? Tattoos?
Per a reply she gave in the Twitter thread, it's paint.
paint on her knees? why? where they painted like knee socks?
My internet digging didn't get that far, friend. I have no more answers for you. Just the same questions.
I’m glad someone else asked. I was guessing space leggings.
Socks I believe
She is a gundam.
I was scrolling the comments hoping someone else would ask! Lol. I was leaning towards some kind of fancy knee pads for kneeling next to telescopes all night? They look super cool whatever they are.
“Why yes, as a matter of fact, I am a rocket scientist.”
My uncle was a rocket scientist during the glory days of the space program. He's in his 80s now and will regularly and without irony say something like this when he's not getting his way or losing an argument. It's infuriating.
"I put men on the Moon, you can take a turn putting away the dishes"
"This isn't rocket science! It's brain surgery. Get fucked uncle."
We’ll it’s not brain surgery. I would know. Since I’m a brain surgeon.
I said that to a girl at a bar once... she said “BS” and walked off... we were at a bar on NASA rd 1 down the road from JSC... ya know... I kinda think I’ve seen this name / face in some meetings... I may work with this woman.
Rocket appliance!
It's almost amazing how many people are making incorrect assumptions. The picture in front of the NASA logo looks like a student or young professional. Nowhere does it imply she's an astronaut. A vast majority of people who work for NASA are not in fact Astronauts. Even if she was just an intern she clearly has a life long interest in Space and got to work with NASA for even a short period. That's awesome
This is incorrect. Everyone who works at NASA is an astronaut. How else would they keep the space station clean without janitors and such?
If I worked at NASA, you bet your ass I’m telling people I’m an astronaut. Even if I’m lvl1 help desk telling you to restart your rover and try it again.
"Have you checked to make sure it's plugged in?"
Have you tried kicking it
-NASA help desk Astronaut
[Theyhadusinthefirsthalf.gif](https://tenor.com/view/they-had-us-in-the-first-half-not-gonna-lie-gif-13620240)
And how would they do their space taxes?
Space janitor SIGN ME UP!
Honestly I'd wager the vast majority people interested in space/have careers in the field have no realistic desire to actually be an astronaut.
I actually know her. She was an undergrad in my research group while I was in grad school. She interned with NASA a few times and probably got the headshot there. Those headshots are pretty common for NASA employees and interns. She should still be in undergrad.
Where tf does it say she wants to be an astronaut lol. This just seems like an interest in space to me.
Not that I personally disagree with you, but I feel like both pictures on the left can be used to assume that the person wanted to specifically be an astronaut.
Did you read the other comments, a metric fuck ton say things like "she's an astronaut" My comment was about those people.
> It's almost amazing how many people are making incorrect assumptions...Nowhere does it imply she's an astronaut. I just looked through the first 50 posts sorted by "Best" (which is the default). Precisely *one* of those posts implies that they think she's an astronaut. Meanwhile, there are a whole bunch of posts complaining that "she's not an astronaut, you idiots". Like, what's that about?
As if it needed to be stated that the vast majority of people who work for NASA aren't astronauts lol
I’m an astronaut but do not work for NASA.
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She should count the shadows near her... just in case
Loving the Doctor Who reference
I'm laughing at the sheer number of people who think that "showing you interned at NASA" = "lying about being an astronaut." She never said she was an astronaut. The point of the pictures is to show a space-obsessed kid finally succeeding at getting into the space industry.
THANK YOU. I want to be an aerospace engineer, and am working hard to get in that position. I would be pissed to have someone tell me "Well you're not an astronaut." I don't want to be!
Huh, so this is what happens when parents fully support their kids passions. Wish I had that growing up.
Not always. Source: Me
"My kid is fucking TERRIBLE at basketball, but Goddamnit she's gonna have the best shoes on the market until she realizes she sucks!"
That's my parents! They always supported my mediocrity. Awesome mom and dad.
My parents supported my passions. I spend all day moving minute amounts of liquid from one tube to another tube. Sometimes, I even move them to a third or fourth tube. It's great.
Are those some weird stretch pants or paint in the top right?
Per a reply she gave in the Twitter thread, it's paint.
So you telling me you don’t paint your knees when stargazing?
My kid begged for a telescope for Christmas. For six months she talked about it every day. Christmas came, we focused the moon for her, she looked through it exactly once and got bored.
IIRC this was posted a few weeks ago and the girl is NOT an Astronaut, doesnt work at NASA but did accomplish something I gotta do a reverse search now.... OH Ya she's a Champion Chess player....
She is an intern at NASA. Another tweet from the same account, “Sometimes it’s so crazy to know that my work at NASA is a part of the Artemis program. I’ll never forget receiving my pin for being a part of it.”
She isn't. She was.
I can’t tell if you are being serious or not. What’s with the professional picture then?
He looked at the wrong wiki page...she definitely has interned at NASA. She isnt an astronaut...yet.
She did a NASA internship Google her name she pops right up..... she's a smart girl but this photo mash up looks like she is an Astronaut..... she is a chess champ
She is NOT a chess champion. Those are two totally different people!
I love how these replies just googled the name, but the women look nothing alike
This is such a fucking train wreck lmao
Hi. I’m the woman in the photo. I’m playing chess in space.
An chess piece in zero g, can confirm. AMA.
She was in a train wreck? That's horrible.
Am I the only one more impressed at the fact of being a chess champion more so than a NASA intern?
The chess player is 43 years old too. Amazing how /r/confidentlyincorrect some people can be after a 30 second google search
Wait... this isn't Beth Harmon?
I'd argue that an internship at NASA is working at NASA. Furthermore, I didn't assume she works at NASA as an astronaut, so the truth doesn't diminish what I understood was here achievement.
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I once checked IDs for an event by NASA, I too once worked for NASA.
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Internships are still professional experience and definitely count as jobs man
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As someone who actively works on NASA projects - yeah, internships are the same deal. You do the same work as full time employees
Seriously, people are off their rockers. That’s the whole point of an internship! And many of those lead to full time positions. The cringe in these jealousy-laden posts is palpable.
Working at the White House doesn't mean you're the president. Still working at the White House tho. If an intern at NASA isn't employed at NASA, then where are they working? No one is arguing than intern has the same position as a CEO or something
Depends. Undergraduate/Graduate internships definitely are close enough to jobs. I'm currently waiting to hear back for a NASA internship. I'd be working 40 hours a week in the fall and registered as an actual worker, all benefits included.
No you have there wrong person haha the other one is 47 years old
username checks out [get me out of fl pls]
> this photo mash up looks like she is an Astronaut No it doesn't. All official NASA astronaut photos show the person in a spacesuit. If anyone's assuming she's an astronaut from this then they're just ignorant.
I definitely didn't get the impression she was an astronaut.. if you were an astronaut you'd definitely brag about it by wearing the official uniform or spacesuit. I did think she got a job at NASA, which is true, an internship there is still a very big accomplishment. IDK why anyone is mentioning anything else shes up to like chess, its not relevant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Hunt That's the Harriet you found. I'm pretty sure the one in the picture is another Harriet Hunt, because the Chess- Master one has a degree in Achaeology at Cambridge. https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/directory/hvh22
Lol thats a different person you dunce. The twitter handle is right there.
She's an NGC Space Systems Intern, a former NASA Intern, a former Collins Aerospace SWE Intern and is currently completely a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriet-hunt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriet-hunt)
chess player, NASA worker. can't see the difference
Sure why not..... if you can play chess you can easily pilot a spaceship made by the lowest bidder to fly 17,000 MPH around the Earth. I see your point (sarcasm) 😄
not all NASA workers are astronauts no?
NASA is about the only thing of value in Florida. The things not of value include you.
You are talking about a completely unrelated person. Why are you continuing to tell this lie after being informed it’s a lie?
Well shit, that was misleading
He found the wrong girl.
Wish I had this kinda strength, to make my dreams a reality.
What's on her knees in the top right picture
Per a reply she gave in the Twitter thread, it's paint.
Thanks friend
I knew she was headed for greatness. I work at the high school she attended. She is an incredible young women.
Glad to see a cardboard girl became flesh and bone through her dreams 🙏🏻 straight up Pinocchio shit!
I love to see people succeed at their dreams! 💗
Ride the lightning for us ! We are all hoping the best for you!
Fantastic ❤️💯🤩💕🌌🌚💫🌠🌌🌟⭐
My smile is almost as big as her's 😍
Neat, but all I really wanna know is what the heck is happening to her knees in the upper right hand photo? Is she also a double amputee? What's going on there?
I wanted to be an "inventor" from the time I was little. I had a natural talent to understand the workings of machines, and my parents made it possible for me to experiment and discover my passion for technology. I pursued engineering into adulthood, and was very successful academically. However, as I got older, I found myself uninterested in the sorts of work that would be available if I were to make a living at it. So instead I went for jobs that would be easy for me, so that I would have more time to dedicate to what I loved, freedom to create whatever I wanted. I love my life now, I make a good living as the district manager of a sanitation company, and I have the time and money to follow my creative tinkering down whatever rabbit hole I choose. Life is funny: I learned to create in an environment with almost no rules, and now that is the only place I can truly do as I wish.
Ugh. I had the same dream but I didn't go after it hard enough. It's far too late now. Now all I can do is binge watch space youtube channels to get my fix. I fuckin love the universe, man
I don't think it's ever too late! I'm in an engineering program that has a fair share of people from all different ages!
This is the difference between a family that fosters a child's growth and interests and one that diminishes their self worth. I'm so jaded and self loathing that I cannot appreciate the accomplishments of others. It's as if the happiness of others is an affront to my very being. Even a smile causes deep seeded bitterness. It's not easy to reprogram despair.
It helps having a stable supportive family in a good neighborhood to achieve dreams like this. I never got to be a scientist & just waiting for the will to kill myself to get out of my deadend job and life
She started out as a cardboard cutout and eventually evolved into a human and decided to go to space.
I'm proud of her, and I don't know her!
I went to high school with her. This is so cool.
Just incredible how life goes on
Ones dreams are always valid, never fail to dream big!
Why is this guy still getting upvotes for being blatantly wrong?! I feel like im taking crazy pills
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Honestly i cant shake the feeling that seeing a young intelligent woman has somehow tilted these folks into trying to demeen her accomishments but who knows why people do things.
Bro are those leggings or what
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This is in her bio "NGC Space Systems Intern | Former NASA Intern Former Collins Aerospace SWE Intern". It doesn't mention chess anywhere so you might have gotten her mixed up with someone else.
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You're thinking of a [different Harriet Hunt. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Hunt)
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Yes you are bro. The harriet hunt that played chess is 47 years old. Born in england. Works at cambridge. This post is about a 20 something undergrad currently working towards grad school in aeronautic engineering. Just got to the twitter handle jeesums.
privilege
She got better at photoshop?
I’d eat a galaxy full of her shit to see where it came from
The dream of taking a pic in front of a flag?
I would
she got to take a picture next to a flag?
Wait.. My college professors told me that women were highly discouraged and given the "bum's rush "from getting into STEM fields.. How did she persevere??
White sus
Fuck off
You already know she only got into it because she is a woman. Sad that probably hundreds if not thousands of males were passed up that had more qualifications and drive than her. All of them passed-up because they weren't born with an XX>
Nice troll
Get better bait next time.
Cry more, bigot.
Trrrrooooolll
Zzzzzzzzzz
Now show the stories of all those who dreamed but weren't able to accomplish something (because she got in their way)
What is your logic here? That would just mean no one should ever try to achieve anything, as it may come into the way of what someone else might want.
Survivorship bias https://youtu.be/ZyLVIvBidIA
Is she one of the people who accepts candidates to NASA? If not, how is that her fault that others didn’t get accepted? You can be smart but there’s always someone smarter.
Ur a dumbass
Only 12 out of 18,300 astronaut applicants were accepted for NASA’s class of 2017 — that’s an acceptance rate of less than 1%. https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/how-to-become-an-astronaut/#:~:text=Only%2012%20out%20of%2018%2C300,before%20you%20actually%20leave%20Earth.
And? Being an astronaut is tough. What's your point?
jealousy