Growing up as an overactive kid in New York City, in the lovely, green borough of Staten Island was so similar and yet so different from how most other kids experienced childhood. I say “so similar and yet so different” because somehow, Staten Island kids were able to enjoy the polar opposite experiences of both the suburbs and the big city. We rode bikes and played baseball in quiet communities nestled in cul-de-sacs, and yet were half an hour away from the excitement of the greatest city in the world.

Those 100 glorious days of summer would thus be spent in a strange kind of limbo, with one foot in each of two worlds: in relatively bucolic serenity, and a hustling and bustling metropolis. Yet every summer, we stepped just a little further away from our home on the Island and a little further towards the shining beacon of the City, its siren song luring us to spend increasing hours exploring Downtown, along the rivers, Central Park, and everywhere else our legs could take us. But at the end of the day, we’d retreat once again to the homes we grew up in.

This summer is arguably the first where a disruption with this delicate balance has had serious effects on my life and psyche. Summer 2016 is the second summer I’m interning at a fast-paced Manhattan tech startup, but the for the first time I’m spending all my time and energy, nearly from dawn till dusk at our little co-working space, a true signal of the shift into adulthood, where summer no longer brings the joys of expecting to sleep in and drive around town with friends all evening, but instead compels me to spend the entire day in office overlooking the city, trying to get as much work done as possible.Why? So I can change the world, dammit. It’s the millennial dream.

This seismic shift brings benefits and drawbacks. The benefits are myriad: being able to invest serious effort into a meaningful company, being invested in with training, familiarity, and hopes of a full-time position, and spending time with a team of awesome, amazing people.

The drawbacks, however, sorely remain like weights tied to my ankles: there’s so many choices but so little time. The FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) soon becomes like a looming shadow over my summer. The feelings of anxiety and indecision run rampant and are hard to avoid when you work in one of the most exhilarating cities in the world, but simply cannot sort out which summer milestone is worth taking the precious time and energy to do between “WORK” and “SLEEP” on your calendar of life.

When mid-July arrived, I was stopped short and felt a flurry of emotions regarding only having completed a fraction of the items on my summer bucket list, which includes, but is not limited to:

• taking a day trip to Cape May and hangin’ with the dolphins
• completing the Tour de City (5 borough bicycle rally that I totally made up)
• instigating a water balloon fight in Central Park
• consuming copious amounts of ice cream
• fabricating a sweet pair of jorts
• crashing an outdoor wedding reception
• eating every single burger in New York City

Sure, they’re not all the best ideas, but they’re ambitious. My lofty aspirations have been relegated to daydreams under fluorescent light so far this summer. And now, just like many other New Yorkers, I am using the remaining 1.5 months to embark on a mad dash to scrape together any leftover time between my two favorite things (again, WORK and SLEEP) and try to cross off as many items from my hit list as possible. And like many New Yorkers ought to be doing, I’m using a magical tool called DIDiT NY to make it all happen.

DIDiT NY both simplifies and amplifies the NYC summer experience by compiling the best places to go and the best things to do all in one little app, aggregating all those Top 10 and “best-of” lists which publishers like Timeout, Gothamist, and Guest of a Guest churn out on the daily. Instead of keeping up with the awesome content on those sites individually, DIDiT handily sorts them all out by neighborhood and category for your perusal.

Going further than that, DIDiT allows me to then pick and choose items from each collection and categorize them in my own lists, lists for each and every occasion and opportunity. I can create a list specifically for date spots I want to take my girlfriend to, a list for places I want to hit up with the Staten Island gang, and a list of the best ice cream shops for my own pleasure. How neat is that? The best part of all: I can share these lists with the people I want to do them with and they can collaborate and add their own choices to our lists so everyone’s on the same page about what’s going down (“No guys, it’s fish tacos then Brooklyn Bowl THEN Oddfellows”).

Thanks to DIDiT, the FOMO is no mo’ and it’s easy to deliberate over what summer activities are worth undertaking and which ones to avoid. I’ll probably cross “crashing an outdoor wedding reception” off the list and replace it with something like “eating the The 10 Best Lobster Rolls in NYC”.

Happy 1.5 Remaining Months of Summer, everyone!

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