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...Iris Lan's resume might read like that of a typical Harvard academic superstar, but her attitude is anything but. An Advanced Standing senior, Lan will receive her B.A. in physics, chemistry, and music and a master's in History of Science today. She won a Hoopes Prize, is recommended for summa in physics/chemistry, and will start at Harvard Law School next year in a joint J.D. and Ph.D. program. Furthermore, Lan is taking the MCATs this summer, so she can go to medical school and eventually become a professor in medical ethics...
...sure what kind of career I want, but I figure `Just go with the flow,'" says Lan, who will be studying health policy and economics in graduate school. "I'm sure if I study hard enough, something interesting will come...
...child of two professors--her mother in computer science, her father in mathematics--Lan is modest, even self-deprecating, about her academic abilities. She insists that she "flunked" an IQ test she took as a child and claims that her elementary school teachers "would be surprised" to find out she was graduating from Harvard. To hear Lan tell her story, her life has merely been a series of interesting, and fortuitous, accidents...
...Lan studied ballet for 10 years, eventually ending up at the School of American Ballet in New York City, before she got "kicked out" because her 5'3" stature was considered "too short" for a budding ballerina. But this setback did not deter Lan for long. "I went next door," Lan recalls matter-of-factly. "Next door" turned out to be the Juilliard School of Music, where Lan studied viola and piano, performed at Lincoln Center, and eventually produced a prelude for the viola quintet and a chant and recitative for the viola and piano. These works were recorded...
...could forget such wonderful characters like Dentist Dan, who "filks my cavakies/Wid choclut cangy...The graygest nentis in the lan." Or poor Peggy Ann McKay (sick with the measles, mumps, a gash, a rash and purple bumps), Backwards Bill (who puts on his underwear over his clothes) and Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who never had a playmate because she never took the garbage...