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Adele Lim Varsha Govindaraju Honors 100AB 28th October 2013 Experiential Learning Last week, I met up with

a fellow honors student and it certainly was interesting to converse with someone totally opposite of myself. According to Kevin, he wants to go into engineering, get a CSE major, and perhaps a business major too; although I thought he had seemed pretty figured out, he declared that he was on the contrary, unsure as to where exactly he was heading in the future. His game plan for freshman yearor at least the first quarter of itis to go nice and steady, cruising with eighteen credits and no clubs, sports, or extra-curricular activities. I thought that was pretty wise. But while Kevin appeared to have had a rigid academic focus, I found that he was constantly attempting to expand the boundaries beyond what a mere classroom setting has to offer. He networked his way through different people asking for lab position openings, and while he had been turned down due to a lack of available space, Kevins enthusiasm and serious interest in the topic of transportation won him referrals to other labs. In addition, he has also done independent projects over his high school years in regards to transportation. Star lab and Tedx were also brought up during our conversation, to which subjects I had geared my research towards when looking for opportunities that might be useful for Kevin. Well, the only problem I could see with Kevin was his uncertainty of what his interest specifically is, and even that isnt a real issueits what college is for anyhow. So what I suggest is for him to keep looking out for real, hands-on experiences that will eventually get him to where he wants to be in the future. However, it is also important to explore outside ones area

of interest, and I hope Kevin will continue to pursue his interest in magicit would be a waste not to fine tune his talents!

Recommended Opportunities Engineering Lecture Series: http://www.engr.washington.edu/alumcomm/lectures.html The 2013 Engineering Lecture Series examines our national and regional infrastructure up close . . . Join us as we examine the future of the transportation system in our region, the role of bridges in our state and explore the engineering of the two mile long Highway 99 tunnel project under downtown Seattle. o Its pretty vague but I think Kevin might be interested in these Engineering professors and their research on this pageI searched this page up using the keyword transportation under the faculty Civil and Environmental Engineering department: http://www.engr.washington.edu/faclookup/index.phtml?query=+transportation+more%3 Acee&search_name=&search_dept=584&search_keyword=transportation CSE professors and their research. Specifically, Richard Anderson, who gears his research towards educational purposes. https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/anderson/ o He is part of a research project called Computing for DevelopmentI actually found this research project separately, and happened upon Richard Anderson again. I remember that somewhere Kevin had mentioned an interest in a group whose aim is to bring technology to less privileged countries, and hence, he might be interested in this type of research where the focus is to improve the lives of

those underprivileged communities. However, they also place quite a bit of emphasis on communication-related technologies (such as cell phones), so Im not exactly sure if that overlaps with transportation. They do have seminars going on for people to attend though, so if Kevin isnt sure if hes interested yet, he could probably go to one of these. http://change.washington.edu/participate http://exp.washington.edu/urp/students/share/conferences.html this could be an opportunity to put himself out there with the independent projects that he has already done. Although I dont think this is applicable to Kevin right now, I feel like this could be a really useful resource in the future! http://exp.washington.edu/urp/students/URLs/about.html.

From what I already know of Kevin, he is full of potential and I hope hell find through exploration, the specific interest that he has in the vast, overlapping field of CSE, engineering, and business.

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