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their contact info; if you see this in print and didn’t get an email in August asking for news, shoot me a line at alexbaileydillon@ gmail.com.
Leili Azarbarzin lazarbarzin17@gmail.com Alex Dillon alexbaileydillon@gmail.com Eli Lustbader e2lustbader@gmail.com
Only two more Junes till our first reunion! Which means, terrifying though that may be, please send me non-academic email addresses that will continue to work after you graduate! I’ll remind everyone again in the spring edition as well. Right to business: Lucy Balcezak is characteristically busy—after returning from her fall semester abroad studying sexual education in Jordan, she had her best running season of all time after not running at all for three months (“which just goes to show that training is a social construct”), interned at the FCC, and spent a month in New Hampshire as a counselor at her chamber music festival. Aliyah Bixby-Driesen took the spring quarter off from her degree at the University of Chicago to make some money and do even more Linguistics research, and is spending her summer tutoring Chinese high schoolers in English Literature, reading manuscripts for a literary agent, and prepping for a senior thesis in Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Meanwhile, Mike Dewar spent the last year as a staffer on Bernie Sanders’ primary bid throughout the Midwest and New England, culminating in a very rewarding stint as Deputy Political Director of Indiana. After four months of deep hibernation, he will be returning to the University of Chicago. Jacob Marks spent his summer researching at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, Canada, and is looking forward to some rock climbing expeditions and applying for graduate school. Varsha Krish is doing ongoing neuroscience research at Columbia, focusing on stem-cell research investigating how stress during different points of development affects the brain in adulthood, and Max Ying just finished up an internship doing software
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Joshua Furth joshua.furth@duke.edu Jack Greenberg jbg3@williams.edu Ross Pforzheimer rossinator199@aol.com Alex Dillon ’13 and Hopkins Drama teacher Mike Calderone met up in Edinburgh this summer during the Festival Fringe. Calderone was on a fact-finding mission in preparation for a Hopkins student trip to the festival next summer.
technology for Goldman Sachs. Matt Vine is “co-oping at Sanofi Pasteur in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania,” this upcoming semester, and looking to move out west for his next internship. After some Googling, I determined that to mean he’s working an intern-like position at the biggest dedicated vaccine company in the world and alternating semesters of that with semesters of academic work. Matt, correct me if I’m wrong! Finally, Cristina Detwiler joins me in the expat club on the other end of Europe—she’s still living in Spain, studying Elementary Education, specializing in English. She’s excited to be on a waiting list for a government job as a language assistant, which sounds awesome, and was thrilled to have reunited with some Hopkins classmates when she returned to the states this winter and summer. As for myself, Alex Bailey Dillon, I spent a lazy summer catching up with American friends, but now am back in Edinburgh working at the Fringe. I’ve got a front of house position at one of the major venues, and at the halfway point of the festival have seen 27 shows, so you could say I’m having a good time! That’s all for now, folks! Thanks to Paul Tupper and Max Ying for recently updating
Contrary to popular expectations and all sensible bets made a couple of Junes ago, the Class of 2014 has not only survived its first couple of years off of the Hill but indeed thrived. Hearing about the journeys of my friends and erstwhile classmates leaves me unquestionably impressed but, frankly, not all that surprised. The immense potential that the Class of 2014 fostered throughout their tenure at Hopkins has consistently converted into a remarkable set of accomplishments for an indomitable group of young adults. Where to begin! Nader Rastegar helped lead the Bulldogs of Yale to another national championship in squash last winter and his Yale classmate, Griffin Smilow, got to bear witness to history as he watched the Games of the XXXI Olympiad right in Rio de Janeiro, securing some time with swimmer Missy Franklin to try out a Snapchat filter or two while down there. After working this past summer in the Human Robotic Interaction Lab at Tufts University, Ballard Glenn Blair plans to study abroad in Bologna, Italy, this year. His fellow denizen of the great Boston area Nicole Kogan spent a good chunk of time this year at MIT continuing research in an electrochemistry lab investigating the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, before flying out to France in late May to conduct additional scholarly work at the Curie Institute in Paris. While across the Atlantic, she built upon the French skills with which Hopkins endowed her while learning immunological and biological lab
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