Blog Posts

Engineering

What’s NASA’s Astronaut Application Like?

That's one small step towards my childhood dream. In 2016 a record-setting 18,300+ people applied to be an astronaut. NASA chose 12. How do you like those .066% odds? This year, even with the additional requirement of a Master's degree, NASA still received over 12,000 applications. One of them was mine. I think this may… Continue reading What’s NASA’s Astronaut Application Like?

Health & Fitness

How I Qualified for the Boston Marathon & the Life Lessons it Taught Me

Our journey as runners often takes us down shared roads. At times, those roads are harder and more challenging than we planned for and we need to adjust our pace to make our way through. But always, our grit, determination, perseverance, humanity, and sheer belief in ourselves and our community guide us to the finish… Continue reading How I Qualified for the Boston Marathon & the Life Lessons it Taught Me

Education

Graduate School Application Tips

Around this time 4 years ago (I honestly can’t believe it’s been that long!) I was researching and applying to graduate school programs. Although grad school was the best investment I’ve ever made in myself (more info on that in past blog post “Is Grad School ‘Worth It’?”) and would do it all over again… Continue reading Graduate School Application Tips