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...earlier version of the Dec. 11 magazine article "15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Trevor J. Bakker" incorrectly stated that Bakker founded the Solider Testimony Project. In fact, Bakker did not found the project, though he was its first director...
When Jonathan S. Brito ’10 approaches you in his DHAs, the first word that comes to mind is “jock.” With a solid frame and confident walk, Brito looks more likely to spend his day carbo-loading for a track and field meet than working through abstract math problem sets in the library. Ask him to explain “A Universal Degree Bound for Rings of Invariants of n Point Configurations Modulo Torus Actions,” and that stereotype quickly disappears. But his understanding of the theorem shouldn?...
...went to a public high school where the highest math is [AP Calculus AB],” said Brito. “But the stuff that I do, I can’t imagine doing in high school. With abstract math, a lot seems applicable at first and then at some point the numbers go away—I haven’t seen one on a pset since sophomore year...
Rachel A. Brown’s ’10 first music venue was her bathroom. Her first audience was her MacBook. When she first began recording herself singing and playing guitar, she says a secluded hiding spot was the only kind of performing environment that she felt comfortable with. A lot has changed since then...
...father, Neil Brown ’74, had never heard his daughter sing until a few days before she left for college. He admits to being flabbergasted the first time he listened to her voice on the iPod she’d handed to him. “I was just literally dumbfounded. I never had the idea it was anywhere in her,” he says...