Week 5 as Yalies!

Another week completed at Yale University – where does the time go?!

Kirsti and I were buried deep in our sodium reduction project this week and we are feeling like we might be seeing the light soon!  It has been an adventure working on this project, challenging both our nutrition skills and analytical abilities.  We analyzed all ingredients for sodium content, and next week we will be moving on to recipes. 

Friday brought an amazing experience – we were able to visit the NACUFS conference in Boston.  We have both agreed that it will be one of our best memories of this internship!  We were unsure of what to expect from this event and as soon as we walked into the showcase, we were in awe.  There were a HUGE amount of vendors and all of them had booths displaying their products, company information, nutritionals, and so on.  There was new food to try at every booth and we quickly filled up our bags with food samples and information.  It was like Halloween for adults! :)  One of our most memorable take-home samples was a Rice Krispie square that was about 3 times the size of a human head haha

After the showcase, we were able to attend two different interest sessions.  The first one was called ‘Nutrition Forum’ which addressed the latest news, trends, and resources in nutrition.  It was a great learning experience and it was wonderful to see a room full of dietitians from all around the United States collaborating.  For the next interest session, Kirsti went to ‘Nutrition Programming’ (how to reach students and share nutrition knowledge) and I went to ‘Nutrition Analysis Paralysis’ (making sense of the nutritional analysis process). 

New England Aquarium fish tank

In the evening, we joined the group of Yale Dining employees and went to the New England Aquarium for a sustainable sea food dinner.  We were able to walk throughout the aquarium, looking at sharks, sting rays, penguins, and jelly fish.  It was very neat! 

We stayed in Boston on Saturday and had a blast touring the city with Kirsti’s two friends.  We saw Fenway park, freedom trail, Quincy market, and then Harvard (we have to remain faithful to Yale and say that Yale has a prettier campusJ). 

We can’t believe our time here is coming closer to an end – it makes us extremely sad, especially because we live so far apart from each other! 

We hope everyone is having a fantastic time in their internships and continues to have a great summer!

Stay tuned for our adventures of finding secret societies on campusJ