Week 0 — I am finally in Oxford and have settled in. Has been almost a week. Boy its been a crazy one !! Being here is almost like being in a time warp. 800 year old buildings, week long wait to open bank accounts, seperate taps for hot and cold water, beautiful colleges, awful [...]

Our Farewell Dinner was bittersweet. We’ve become each other’s family over the last year, and knowing that we might never see each other again and that at the very least, we’d have to end our current lifestyles was unsettling.
Classmate Andrew Bergbaum (who also blogs on here) and I gave farewell reflections. His was more lighthearted [...]

The entire class has returned to Oxford for our final week long capstone course. This course looks at “wicked problems”, which by my own interpretation are problems that require what the Romantic John Keats describes as, “negative capability”.  
 Here’s what Wikipedia says about NC:
Negative capability is a theory of the poet John Keats, expressed in his letter to [...]

Our final presentation was 2.5 hours, but it felt more like 30 mins. Each of us enjoyed delivering our sections and I think from the enthusiastic response of our sponsors, they felt satisfied with our work. I became the team’s lead on hydropower in China, while my three classmates took leads on hydropower in India, [...]