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Here’s part of my poster application. Above is what I made: Statement of Topic: Using Technology to Lower the Cost of Being a Woman Summary: It costs more to live as a woman than as a man. This cost can be measured with money: increased health insurance costs[1] [...] I have trouble remembering questions in meetings, or good ideas I get for projects at work which leap out at me during my commute. At work, I always have my laptop and my legal notepad, but sometimes I just need to remember something for 10 minutes. Usually I can’t, so I’ve developed coping mechanisms as [...] I had the fun/pressure/honor/experience of vetting vendors for hiring for an event recently, and realized Neil Gaiman’s advice about how to be a successful freelancer: You get work however you get work, but keep people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of today’s world is freelance), because their work is good, [...] A lot of folks have just started college and I don’t think they should have to wait 4 years to hear great advice on how to live. So here are my 3 favorite speeches for graduation: Anne Lamott’s speech at the 2003 Berkeley graduation, “Let Us Commence.” For other sources of hints on how to [...] I had the privilege of interviewing candidates for Polaris Project’s fellowship program last week, and an applicant told me that she wanted to work on “an issue bigger than politics.” That sounds simple, and it is. I still agree with Roy Cohn as imagined in Angels in America. He says that politics is “the game [...] |
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