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, [...]

It’s our last weekend before the final presentation. I’m happy to have all our work neatly fitted onto brightly colored PowerPoint slides. However I’m saddened to think that after Tuesday 5.00 PM, perhaps none of the ideas that my SCP team and I have grown to care about will be carried through and treated the way we’d envisioned. [...]

Now into the second half of my Summer Consulting Project, I’ve emerged from the initial shock of re-entering an office environment after about 9 months of enjoying the lifestyle of a grad school
Things that didn’t seem to matter to me before (like the prospect of eating cookies at 3 pm) now seem somewhat privileged and [...]