This past week I presented a version of my paper “Levels of Overcrowding in the Bus System of Bangladesh” at the Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference. The conference is put on by the Student Government Association and is hosted in the Georgia Tech Hotel. 300 posters were up by graduate students from all departments [...]
Over the winter break I traveled to Israel on the Taglit Birthright Israel trip. My sister and I had been planning for years to take this trip together, and we chose this winter immediately after her graduation to go. We decided to travel with the group from her alma mater, the University of Florida, who [...]
Last Friday, Robert Milton, Chairman and former CEO of Air Canada, paid our air traffic/airport lab a visit. A lifelong aviation enthusiast, Mr. Milton graduated from Georgia Tech in 1983 and worked for nearly a decade in several areas of the airline industry, before finding his way to Air Canada in 1992. He climbed the [...]
My sister and I have been planning for years to try and do Birthright together. After applying earlier this fall, we have been accepted to go this winter! We will be traveling to Israel between December 22 and January 1 through IsraelExperts.
Birthright is a program set up for Jewish young adults between the ages of [...]
This past Wednesday I received the finished version of my band’s fourth demo, the self-titled Floating Block Technology. My guitarist Travis finished recording the vocals and mixing the tracks just this past week, and I now have several copies sitting in my room. This demo was essentially started in 2005 when we recorded a version [...]
Two weeks ago the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association held its Championship Regatta at Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. I attended the regatta with my former North Carolina State University rowing team.
It was not until after the regatta that I was alerted by one of the current NC State coxswains that my likeness was [...]
The final study report from my internship over the winter at the Regional Plan Association has been posted in the Writings section. Entitled Assessing Increased Rail Speeds in the Northeast Corridor, it summarizes the issues facing the Northeast Megaregion’s rail backbone, and what could be done to improve it.
I finally finished documenting my time in Asia. This morning I posted my final post about week 59, Singapore and my trip home. Although I came home in the middle of October, it took me a long time to not only write about my travels, but also arrange the pictures. It feels great to be [...]
A new section of the website focusing on the writings I have done in the last few years is now up. All items are in PDF, and a link is provided for articles that are published on the internet. I will try to get more up there as time goes on, both older pieces that [...]
I flew back to the United States on October 17, landing in Newark Liberty International Airport at 2:00 pm. I had finished my Fulbright Scholarship on September 7, and then spent six weeks traveling India and Southeast Asia, the latter with my friend Amy from high school. I am currently staying in Freehold, NJ and [...]