In early June of this year, I discovered a summer-sized hole in my schedule. Turning to online courses to fill the void and absorbing riveting biological concepts in the process, I stumbled across a particularly intriguing course on MIT’s OpenCourseWare titled ‘Developing World Prosthetics.' I came for the biomechanics, but I stayed for the ‘Developing World’. Although there were no video lectures available, I had access to course materials, problem sets, and suggested readings. As I perused the...