Everyone needs a change of tempo sometimes. For me, the summers I spend in the north Maine woods are a much-welcomed andante to suburban Connecticut’s productive allegro pace. In the woods, the thoroughfares are old, private logging roads free from speed limits and haphazardly riddled with rocks and potholes, ensuring the slow pace. The closest town is 30 miles away, and bustles with the sheer velocity of a pregnant turtle. You’d expect that from a town with a center...

"Encompassing all academic pursuits, music reaches to a level beyond finite. It’s appreciated only by humanity, yet we cannot deduce what makes it so human. We don’t know why music touches us, but we know it does. It is never perfect, but always beautiful and always mysterious, undefinable within the universal restrictions of a set of numbers or stark facts. Music’s baffling nature makes it infinitely more secretive than the outer reaches of the universe, while being...

A specialization while maintaining a good spread of activities, along with being bilingual by nature,...