Hi, I'm Belén. I'm 17, I live in Boise, Idaho, and I'm trying to figure out what to study in college.

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That sounds like a small problem, but "STEM" covers about a thousand jobs and most of them are invisible to high schoolers. You hear "engineer" and picture someone in a hard hat. You hear "data scientist" and picture someone staring at a screen. Neither of those tells you what the work actually feels like, what you'd do on a Tuesday morning, or whether you'd like it.

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So I started asking.

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This site is a growing library of video interviews with women (and others) who work in STEM. I ask them what they actually do, how they got there, what's hard about it, and what they wish someone had told them at my age. Then I edit the conversations and post them here, free for anyone else trying to figure this stuff out.

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I focus on women because the gap is real and the role models are harder to find. But I'm not strict about it. If someone has a story worth hearing, I want to hear it.

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The other half of this project is making it bigger than me. There's a guide on the site for running your own interviews and adding them to the library. I want students everywhere doing this, because the more of us asking questions, the better picture we all get of what's possible.

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If you want to be interviewed, contribute one, or just say hi, the contact page is right there.

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Thanks for being here.

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— Belén