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Momsoon Season

Momsoon Season

As my time at my internship came to a close and my flight home approached, I thought back to when I first arrived in India. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing and I roamed around the airport, asking anyone and everyone for advice. Six weeks later, I knew a few more words in Hindi and felt much more comfortable but overall still clueless. I could not have asked for anything more and I have grown immensely. I was blessed…

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Momsoon Season

Momsoon Season

As my time at my internship came to a close and my flight home approached, I thought back to when I first arrived in India. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing and I roamed around the airport, asking anyone and everyone for advice. Six weeks later, I knew a few more words in Hindi and felt much more comfortable but overall still clueless. I could not have asked for anything more and I have grown immensely. I was blessed…

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Wifi is hard to come by

Wifi is hard to come by

  I applied to this fellowship for a few reasons: my friend Morgan did it last year and told me how amazing it was, I have never really travelled outside the country (I don’t think an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican really counts), with my engineering schedule I can’t travel abroad, and because I had recently become a yoga instructor. Now the yoga is what made the fact that it was India so enticing since it started there. Yoga is…

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Wifi is hard to come by

Wifi is hard to come by

  I applied to this fellowship for a few reasons: my friend Morgan did it last year and told me how amazing it was, I have never really travelled outside the country (I don’t think an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican really counts), with my engineering schedule I can’t travel abroad, and because I had recently become a yoga instructor. Now the yoga is what made the fact that it was India so enticing since it started there. Yoga is…

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Wifi is hard to come by

Wifi is hard to come by

  I applied to this fellowship for a few reasons: my friend Morgan did it last year and told me how amazing it was, I have never really travelled outside the country (I don’t think an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican really counts), with my engineering schedule I can’t travel abroad, and because I had recently become a yoga instructor. Now the yoga is what made the fact that it was India so enticing since it started there. Yoga is…

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Tsukumo’s Week 7: Going home, going home 

Tsukumo’s Week 7: Going home, going home 

Going home, going home, I’m just going home Quiet-like, some still light, I’m just going home… These are some of the lyrics from the song “Going Home”, version by Annie Haslam. And how fitting it is for my final week at NIRMAN and Varanasi. I taught this song to 8th and 9th grade students as I was introducing them to solfège (singing the melody in Do-Re-Mi) and Western orchestra (the melody comes from Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New…

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Tsukumo’s Week 7: Going home, going home 

Tsukumo’s Week 7: Going home, going home 

Going home, going home, I’m just going home Quiet-like, some still light, I’m just going home… These are some of the lyrics from the song “Going Home”, version by Annie Haslam. And how fitting it is for my final week at NIRMAN and Varanasi. I taught this song to 8th and 9th grade students as I was introducing them to solfège (singing the melody in Do-Re-Mi) and Western orchestra (the melody comes from Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New…

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Back At It

Back At It

After an interesting stint away from Charchit and Bikram I was ready to come home. Over the next week I settled into my research.  The routine was: go to a cafe, buy the cheapest thing, and email people who knew way more than me about production and resource use. We settled on the idea of following a product through its lifecycle (as a way of looking at climate change).  So the research started out by looking for a lifecycle that was…

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Back At It

Back At It

After an interesting stint away from Charchit and Bikram I was ready to come home. Over the next week I settled into my research.  The routine was: go to a cafe, buy the cheapest thing, and email people who knew way more than me about production and resource use. We settled on the idea of following a product through its lifecycle (as a way of looking at climate change).  So the research started out by looking for a lifecycle that was…

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Back At It

Back At It

After an interesting stint away from Charchit and Bikram I was ready to come home. Over the next week I settled into my research.  The routine was: go to a cafe, buy the cheapest thing, and email people who knew way more than me about production and resource use. We settled on the idea of following a product through its lifecycle (as a way of looking at climate change).  So the research started out by looking for a lifecycle that was…

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