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Launching Into the New Year
Experiencing my first rocket launch Though I’ve been called a space nerd and a rocket scientist before, I’ve never felt that I never really earned that title. After all, I’ve...
COVID-26.2
Running from your problems I’m a big fan of running, to the point where one of my labmates described me as being known among her friends as “a running and...
Big Changes in the Qualifying Exam Procedure
The many responses to AeroAstro’s new quals process, and how it might be linked to implicit gender bias Imagine standing in front of a panel of faculty members, some of...
My Year in the Wild
Why I Chose to Go into Industry Before Pursuing Grad School Once I realized I wanted to be a professor, grad school felt inevitable. It was a question of when...
Why I Vote and Why You Should Too
Your voice matters, so make it heard “Voting is our civic duty.” This sort of rationale can seem awfully abstract to a graduate student who has multiple class assignments due...
A stroke of luck?
Hospitalization during a pandemic Back in April, I wrote about how running has remained an important form of stress relief to me during the pandemic, despite the loss of the...
This isn't Canada, eh?
The times Americans thought I was crazy Born and raised in Canada, I wasn’t expecting a big societal change coming to MIT for grad school. In my mind, Canada and...
US Air Force pilots get an artificial intelligence assist with scheduling aircrews
An optimization tool from the Department of Air Force–MIT AI Accelerator is transforming the laborious process of staffing C-17 cargo flights. Take it from U.S. Air Force Captain Kyle McAlpin...
Launching Into the New Year
Though I’ve been called a space nerd and a rocket scientist before, I’ve never felt that I never really earned that title. After all, I’ve never witnessed a live rocket...
The Airplane Whisperer
This essay originally appeared in Angles 2019. Imagine trying to bake a perfect cake without a recipe in one try. Where would you start? Perhaps you would think of the...