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Name: Polina
Birthday: 6/19/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: Running, drawing, materials science research, clubbing, pretty much anything else your average 22-year old is interested in
Occupation: Student
Industry: Engineering
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AIM:  rspy619
Member Since:
6/9/2004
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| Remember those Stanford students I met at a housewarming party last Thursday? It turns out one of them is good friends (we're talking high school) with my UCSB buddy who came to visit this weekend. Oh yeah, the Stanford guys are also roommates with Stanford's Graduate Student Council (GSC) Co-Chair, who was at the GSC retreat with me for most of the weekend. All this became apparent at a party on Saturday night, where all the groups collided. Wow, small world. Still not convinced? Well, on my run this morning I ran (almost literally) into Lynn Andrea Stein. I guess she is giving a talk to the CS department here. So there, it's a small world after all.
EDIT:
Janet, this one's for you: I'm working with Tyler Johnston on a two-quarter project dealing with medical devices.
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| I went to a friend of a friend's housewarming party last night thinking that I would get to meet some non-Stanford students. Wrong. The first three guys I talked to all lived in my apartment complex. I guess it's a small world after all.
This weekend is the Graduate Student Council retreat. We'll see how that goes. I've been attending the weekly meetings, but haven't really done anything substantial. Hopefully, this thing will get me more involved.
I'm helping to plan the ME department's Visit Day, kind of like Olin's Candidates' Weekend. Sweet.
One of the students I met last year while visiting UCSB is coming up to visit this weekend. It'll be interesting to catch up and see how our first months in grad school compare.
Uh-oh, I have a problem session for PDEs in 10 minutes... why do I do this to myself?
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| Well, it looks like it's round two for me and this fluids concentration of mine. Hopefully, things will.. uhhh, flow... smoother this time around? Yeah, right. As things stand now, I plan to take a break from Stanford after two years and work for a couple more to figure out if I want to come back to get a PhD. We'll see how long that plan lasts.
Some interesting statistics: did you know that only about 20% of the US population has a bachelor's degree? Did you know that less than 2% of bachelor's degrees are awarded in engineering? Scary.
I went over to Clara's this weekend for her housewarming party, which means I got to hang out with people that have known me for more than six month. Pretty cool. I wish I could do that sort of hanging out/talking to people more often.
I came to the realization this weekend that the only girls I hang out with at Stanford are my roommates (I guess it's a good thing they're really cool) - everyone else is a guy. I went out with a group of 15 or so people this Friday, and my roomies and I were the only girls. Today, I realized that my fluids study group shrank to all guys as well. I feel kind of bad for them because they're all great guys but totally deprived of female attention. I guess they're used to it though.
Oh yes, like Janet, I will be at Olin for graduation :)
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| One final and one internship application left to go. Then home to Chicago on Saturday and to Boston on Sunday. I can't wait.
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| I decided to skip class, a lab meeting and an advisor presentation today to go hear some really great speakers. The real highlights were Bill Gates, Paul Farmer (remember "Mountains Beyond Mountains"?), aaaaaaaaand (que drumroll) the Governator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Everything here is moving fast, perhaps too fast. At least I get to go home for Thanksgiving.
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