Hi everyone, Congratulations on being part of the Stanford Class of 2020! I’m writing this little FAQ specifically for you all at the Stanford Orange County Freshman Send-off, which I can’t attend this year in person. It contains a variety of questions that previous years of freshmen (myself included) wanted answers to, as well as questions that your … More Advice for the Stanford Class of 2020
This week marks the beginning of the end for the learning component of my ISSUP internship at UCI Applied Innovation, but the program is sure ending with a bang. On Monday, the ISSUP interns headed off to Disneyland, where we got a special behind-the-scenes tour of different aspects of the parks. At the on-site Disney corporate … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 5
Week 3 of the ISSUP program featured the first three of six site visits to companies across the Orange County area. Over the week, we visited Modulated Imaging, Irvine Pharmaceutical Services, and Edwards Lifesciences. Modulated Imaging, a startup spun out of UCI’s Beckman Laser Institute, is creating easy-to-use machines that help identify Diabetes patients at … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 4
Week 2 of my UCI Applied Innovation internship has just wrapped up; since I started a week early, and the first week was “Week 0”, I’m now done with the first month of my internships. This week, the Cove interns and I got to chat with some really incredible speakers from across industries. Tracy Kwiker’s … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 3
There were more exciting adventures this week at UCI Applied Innovation! One of the most notable trips we’ve taken so far was going to Calit2@UCI, an innovation center at UCI that allows people in the STEM field to build and test their products from concept to reality. One of the projects we got to try out was a … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 2
Was that title a bit of an exaggeration? Perhaps. Pokemon Go hasn’t been officially released in parts of Europe, Asia, or even Canada yet, after all. Almost a year ago, I wrote about how Pokemon Go marks a change in Nintendo’s reluctant shift to mobile, and this shift in strategy is paying big dividends. Nintendo’s … More Pokemon Go has Taken Over the World
Friday marks the end of my second week at the two internships I’m tackling this summer, and the first week in which all of the ISSUP interns with UCI Applied Innovation were present. A great part of the ISSUP internship is that we get to explore the business and entrepreneurial ecosystem surrounding UCI. This week, we toured … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 1
Last summer, I went to Hollywood to intern at Technicolor. This summer, I’ve taken on two internships, both located at the University of California, Irvine. My first internship is with UCI Applied Innovation, a Chancellor-sponsored initiative that seeks to expand Orange County’s entrepreneurial ecosystem with available human capital and resources in the vicinity of UCI. … More Summer 2016 Internships!
“Another such victory and I come back to Epirus alone.” – King Pyrrhus Well, the moment that many across the world feared has arrived. On June 23rd, 2016, the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, 52% to 48%. As a result, stock markets worldwide are tumbling, the British pound sterling is … More Brexit: A Pyrrhic Victory
Another year has passed. I can’t believe that I’m halfway done with my Stanford undergraduate career; looking back, however, it’s amazing how much I have been able to experience. After taking some time to reflect, here are some important things I learned from my sophomore year at Stanford. The “Sophomore Slump” is Overrated Many people … More Things I Learned my Sophomore Year at Stanford
Andrew Jabara 