This speech was prepared for the first meeting of the Columbia University Amnesty group, where I served as webmaster for one year. It was intended as an introduction to the world of Amnesty International including some of the history behind the organization.
Hi everyone and welcome to the first meeting. First of all, can everyone...
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I recently completed a paid internship at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, which is based at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in the City of New York. It involved being the official photographer for the 2008 Summer Institute. What does that mean? I hear you ask… well, I constructed...
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New York
Tonight saw the launch of “Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development”. It is the first student-run interdisciplinary journal of sustainable development… ever. That’s pretty cool. It will be an annual publication and the first issue consists of 12 articles. Now here’s the kicker – one of those articles was penned by me!
The event...
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I weathered the storm of the previous year
and in some good company I was here found
to welcome January without a fear
My feet finally returned to solid ground
from abstract worlds to which my maths had taken
me aloft and in many equations drowned
Relaxed anew, my mind it hath awakened
and to far-off lands I found my gaze...
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This poem was sent to the members of the cuai-board email listserv as a christmas card and may have been influenced by the alcohol that inevitably accompanies christmas gatherings.
To all my friends in amnesty
I write to you with festive cheer
for from semester, we are free
so closer still to your degree
but come with me, we’ll...
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This poem was emailed to all the students in W4400 Dynamics of Climate Variability and Climate Change in the fall of 2007 during a particularly frustrating late night of pre-exam study.
To all my friends who with me share
The burden of this final act
I call you now, to come, to dare
And through this haze, this...
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Photo Essay.
A typical week in the life a a Columbia University graduate student.
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I finally have some time to update all of my beloved fans of my progress. Actually, I’m siting in class right now and I’m very bored. The class is on probability. It makes sense to educate climate science grad students on probability, however, owing to our diverse backgrounds, it is also necessary to begin...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007
Nothing really prepares you for the Iguazu falls. They’re big. Very big. They are the second most voluminous waterfalls in the world after Victoria falls,...
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Asuncion
Do you like apples? Well… I’m going to one, a big one! How do you like them apples?
Fine print: After a long and nail-biting wait, I have been admitted to the M.A. in Climate and Society at Columbia University in the City of New York. I still can’t quite believe it. Some fans have...
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