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      .030 Exeter chamber orchestra violin, played Truvy in Exeter school play ''Steel Magnolias''
 .033 parents met at [[ https://antiochcollege.edu/ | Antioch ]], band [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/arts/music/pyramids-jazz.html | Pyramids ]]?? [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_Ackamoor| Idris Ackamoor ]]??
 .034 A.S. disliked uncertainty ... and jazz
 .037 Challenger explosion during Exeter Junior year
 .040 understudy [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Morgan | Barbara Morgan ]] Teacher in Space, NSF women and minorities in science and engineering, leading to grants for Dr. Shields
 .042 graduation, won Perry cup
 .047 admitted early decision MIT
 .048 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Corridor | MIT Infinite Corridor ]]
 .049 MIT course numbers 8 Physics, 12 EAPS Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
 .052 trouble with [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_mechanics | statistical mechanics ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_function_(statistical_mechanics) | partition function ]]
 .052 Advisor [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Elliot | Jim Elliot ]] Uranus rings, Pluto atmosphere
 .053 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Bridge | Mass Ave Bridge ]] 364.4 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot | smoots ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_R._Smoot | Oliver Smoot ]] 5 foot 7 inch
 .057 Jan MIT astronomy field camp to Lowell Observatory, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deidre_Hunter | Deidre Hunter ]]
 .058 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_1613 | IC 1613 ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_galaxy | irregular dwarf galaxy ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%E2%80%93Rayet_star | Wolf-Rayet star ]] DR1
 .062 Five hour to bottom of Grand Canyon, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Ranch | Phantom Ranch ]]
 .064 Summer internship at JPL (1994?) Observational Systems Group [[ Mike Shao | https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/shao/ ]]
 .064 Apollo anorthosite rocks dated Moon's age as 4.46GY (Earth 4.54GY), ejecta from Mars-sized impactor into Earth
 .065 Following summer (1995) w/ MIT [[ https://space.mit.edu/people/remillard-ronald-a/ | Ron Remillard ]] classifying hard X-ray sources
 .065 Following summer (1996) w/ Arecibo [[ https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/faculty/michael-nolan | Mike Nolan ]], prep for [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bertha_(1996) | Hurricane Bertha ]]
 .068 [[ https://shass.mit.edu/undergraduate/scholarships/burchard | Burchard Scholar ]], one of 35 students, yearlong humanities enrichment
 .069 Acapella group, [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDiSYp_51iY | pi ]] to 15(?) decimal places
 .070 read plays, "air of pretension",
 .071 Senior thesis, paper with [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Elmegreen | Bruce Elmegreen ]] [[ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/305158/pdf | The relationship between gas, stars, and star formation in irregular galaxies: A test of simple models ]] Accepted 1997, APJ 1998 Feb 1
 .072 late summer 1997 [[ https://www.astro.wisc.edu/staff/wilcots-eric/ | Eric Wilcots ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Sparke | Linda Sparke ]] U Wis Madison
 .075 two bedroom bug-infested top floor of house, $600/mo. out of $1000/mo stipend age 22
 .076 daydreamed of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston | Zora Neale Hurston ]] biopic acting, aced atomic physics, poor astrophysics grades
 .079 applied to acting graduate schools, failed audition in Denver . 082 invited to (underfunded) UCLA acting program

Life On Other Planets

A Memoir of Finding My Place In the Universe

Aomawa Shields 2023 - Bvtn Lib 520.92 SHI


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