It’s considered the Super Bowl for transportation research. Every January, the attendees rush through the streets of downtown DC with rolled up posters in hand, hotel reservations made a year in advance, and name badges with ribbons proudly displayed, many of them looking forward to snapping a pic in front of the large-lettered “TRB” sign. […]
Category: Perspective
Remote By Design: Avid Core Invests in People Over Place
As a college student who was in his freshman year at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’m well acquainted with the practice of being forced online due to circumstances outside your control. But how many companies choose virtual work without any external factors? Avid Core is a remote-by-design company. While many were forced to […]
Finding Room to Make Mistakes and Let Go of Perfection
It would be an understatement to say that I was nervous as a spring intern for Avid Core on my first day. I logged onto my computer and hesitated to open Microsoft Teams for my first meeting of the semester. My palms were sweating, my voice was cracking, and I spent 45 minutes picking out […]
Building Confidence through New Experiences
Wet palms, shaking legs, scratchy voice— we’ve all been there, feeling the nerves and excitement ahead of something unknown. Confidence can be built when you least expect it, and new experiences give us opportunities to showcase strengths we didn’t even know we had. As we start a new year, I’m looking back on some of […]
Unleashing My Inner Tommy Pickles: Lessons from My Avid Core Internship
Growing up, one of my favorite TV shows was Nickelodeon’s The Rugrats. I loved following along with the baby adventures and wild imaginations of Tommy and Dill Pickles, Chuckie Finster, Phil and Lil Deville, Angelica Pickles, and Susie Carmichael. Tommy stood out to me for his bravery, charm, charisma, and devotion to his friends and […]