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Starting Off with a Bang
After nearly ten months of anticipation and excitement, I was finally in my room at Trinity College Dublin. I immediately began to unpack, anxious to get settled and begin this new chapter of my life. In just a few minutes, … Continue reading
Posted in class of 2016, Trinity College Dublin
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A Tale of Two Prisons
I’ve been in South Africa for the past month doing fieldwork for my dissertation. My topic is looking at barriers to implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the community level. I’m working with colleagues … Continue reading
Dublin: What To Expect
When I left the United States on my way to Ireland in mid-September 2014, I had no idea what to expect. As an engineer I researched notable sources online and started to piece together just what it would be like … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2015, Trinity College Dublin
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Reflecting on the year
It is hard to believe that my Mitchell year is already coming to a close. In less than a month I will leave Dublin, enjoy a brief respite in my childhood home in Cincinnati, OH—and then fly to Washington, D.C. … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2015, Trinity College Dublin
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Acting the Ambassador
As a Mitchell Scholar, one of my responsibilities here in Dublin is to act in an ambassadorial capacity on behalf of America. Thus, a couple of weeks ago, I found myself participating in a debate hosted by the College Historical … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2015, Class Year, Trinity College Dublin
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Fears Can Hold Us Back
I am writing this particular blog post on the eve of St. Patrick’s day in Dublin, Ireland 2015. If you would have told me in 2008 when I graduated from High School in South Dakota, that the next seven years … Continue reading
Disability and Development in Dublin
Ireland is known for many things. In the short few months that I’ve been here, I’ve found that its reputation for arts and culture, friendly people, beautiful scenery, and lively atmosphere is well deserved. Fewer people know that Ireland is … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Trinity College Dublin
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New Traditions, New People
“What can I say—life is good.” This is the general go-to answer I’ve employed every time a friend asks me how my year in Ireland is going. It is a concise and fitting description most definitely. In the last couple … Continue reading
MATHletes
Fostering an emphasis on quality maths education is important for a variety of reasons. Math literacy promotes analytical thinking. Math is the language of science. Math, taught properly, encourages creativity and synthetic “outside-the-box” thinking. An emphasis on math, as part … Continue reading
Something Irish
“Is it true that, in America, they think eastern Europe is like, just a single country? And they don’t know the difference?” I was in a hostel in Budapest yesterday and overheard (re: eavesdropped upon) a German girl asking a … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2014, Trinity College Dublin
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Some Things I’ve Been Thinking About
When you think about it, math is pretty simple. I don’t mean to say that math is easy. “Simple,” rather, in a sort of ontological sense. Most of the basic formulas of mathematics are constructed from a remarkably small set … Continue reading
Unwiring the brain
As the new year has rolled on, I have started to enter the “business” end of the year, as it were. Classes have wrapped up for the most part, and now I am spending most of my time getting my … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2014, Medicine, Trinity College Dublin
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