To the Class of 2006
Sarada Peri
Issue date: 5/18/06 Section: Op-Ed
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I could use this, my final column of the year, to condemn disasters like LRAP, the library or Career Services. But why expend even more negative energy during finals? Instead, I will devote this space to the bright, ambitious and passionate individuals who make up the KSG Class of 2006. They have truly lived up to the famous serenity prayer of addicts. Despite the disasters that plague our school, they accepted the things they could not change and changed the things they could. And for that we are grateful.
Speaking with my fellow MPP1s, I consistently heard that the graduating class was incredibly welcoming to us newbies and generally made KSG an interesting little bubble in the universe.
The coolness abounds in varying forms. We find ubiquity, embodied by the likes of Sunny Gettinger. She not only helped MPP1s as a CA2 (Class Advisor and Course Assistant), but also helped run the Democrats, Spring Exercise, and the talent show. Hell, I think she was the bailiff in "Inherit the Wind."
We find talent, in the likes of Eleni Andreadis. Citizen News Editor, singer-songwriter-guitarist, Octopus News Hour anchor, and director of "Inherit the Wind," Eleni is one of many who brought her talent in a suitcase and slowly unpacked for us. (Did you hear Ms. Kennedy School herself, Lisa George belt an Italian aria at the talent show?) These people reminded us that graduate school shouldn't be a black hole devoid of all things artistic or fun.
My own shout-out is to the generous Citizen editors Dallas Boyd and Matt Lindsey, who took a chance on this snarky young MPP1 with a word processor and a dream. Dallas's politics may be utterly misguided but he's a fantastic writer and gentleman. Matt literally dug this paper out of the publications grave-his leadership has created something we're proud to write for. And he was a CA for API 101A, spending hours patiently reviewing EV and CV. And he was in "Inherit the Wind." (What is up with that play?)
The contributions of graduating MPA/IDs are particularly remarkable given their two-year submersion in multivariate calculus, contentious development theory, and some mysterious "bunker" (read: no free time). Despite that, people like CA Extraordinaire Doug Johnson lost years on his life answering our dumb questions about fixed effects.
Speaking with my fellow MPP1s, I consistently heard that the graduating class was incredibly welcoming to us newbies and generally made KSG an interesting little bubble in the universe.
The coolness abounds in varying forms. We find ubiquity, embodied by the likes of Sunny Gettinger. She not only helped MPP1s as a CA2 (Class Advisor and Course Assistant), but also helped run the Democrats, Spring Exercise, and the talent show. Hell, I think she was the bailiff in "Inherit the Wind."
We find talent, in the likes of Eleni Andreadis. Citizen News Editor, singer-songwriter-guitarist, Octopus News Hour anchor, and director of "Inherit the Wind," Eleni is one of many who brought her talent in a suitcase and slowly unpacked for us. (Did you hear Ms. Kennedy School herself, Lisa George belt an Italian aria at the talent show?) These people reminded us that graduate school shouldn't be a black hole devoid of all things artistic or fun.
My own shout-out is to the generous Citizen editors Dallas Boyd and Matt Lindsey, who took a chance on this snarky young MPP1 with a word processor and a dream. Dallas's politics may be utterly misguided but he's a fantastic writer and gentleman. Matt literally dug this paper out of the publications grave-his leadership has created something we're proud to write for. And he was a CA for API 101A, spending hours patiently reviewing EV and CV. And he was in "Inherit the Wind." (What is up with that play?)
The contributions of graduating MPA/IDs are particularly remarkable given their two-year submersion in multivariate calculus, contentious development theory, and some mysterious "bunker" (read: no free time). Despite that, people like CA Extraordinaire Doug Johnson lost years on his life answering our dumb questions about fixed effects.
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