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Commencement 2014 Recognizing Student

Achievements

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“In my four years at Olin, I…”

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Published a paper at an International Robotics Conference (IRoS) in Japan

Cast a bronze Ironman Helmet

Choreographed three dances for Babson Dance Ensemble

Completed a triathlon

Built wall climbing robot and kinetic tree sculpture

Learned many things. Remembered a few.

Rode 4000 miles on an electric motorcycle in one summer

Befriended middle schoolers at my church (here)

Didn’t break anything too expensive

Became the president of #cheeeeese club

Climbed things

Became certified in scuba diving

Designed and sewed a 12-foot shark that runs on bilge pumps

Presented my research at a SPIE conference in San Diego

Figured out I liked Materials Science

Fell madly in love with blues dancing and traveled to nine cities solely to dance

Farmed in Costa Rica

Learned to combat samurai

Got paid to go to Italy to teach professors and graduate students

Paid for my own car

Went to national conferences to study microbes

Ate. Prayed. Loved.

Won the Wicked Lottery in NYC

Re-imaged over 100 laptops

Helped build a snowman that was taller than me

Drove across the US on my first road trip

Sang the blues in Mississippi (poorly)

Now want to go to art school

Designed two medical devices with another student

Learned to survive in a “…land of snow and frozen lakes”

Participated in all things musical (OCO, ORO, BOCA, FWOP, Wired, AHSCap, AHS Concentr…)

Experimentally measured the Harvard Bridge using his body height

Learned Mandarin

Designed and built a penguin, fish and a flower

Faced my fear of spiders

Made nanoparticles for cancer therapeutics

Hiked in the Himalayas in Nepal

Brought relay for life to Olin

Learned not to cut metal with pocket knives

Brought back the Olin Table Tennis club

Learned to unicycle, communicate, contradance, dumpster-dive, and give great hugs

Forever disappointed my 3-year-old self by not becoming a vacuum engineer

Am now referred to as ‘the EE girl…’

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Built and sold cassava graters to women in Ghana

May have had the most (diverse) Olin Sibbs – 5 from 7 continents!

Attended educational conferences

Produced short films

Learned to think like an engineer

Developed a culture crush on Hungary

Am now on a first-name basis with local EMT’s due to multiple injuries

Received credit for building a robotic bartender

Encouraged other seniors to be Grand Challenge Scholars

Walked ~69 miles between the Halls and the AC

Attended 9 Hackathons

Received the world’s worst Mohawk (haircut)

Designed the EHX Lumberjack overdrive pedal, now for sale at music retailers

Learned aerial arts

Presented work for people at Facebook, NASA, and at PyCon in Montreal

Took classes at all 4 schools

Rode over 5000 miles on an electric vehicle that I made

Learned the Lindy Hop

Built a Phoenix clock

Worked a year as a product designer

Learned to unicycle

Lived and travelled in Asia for 6 months

Designed a hybrid drivetrain that raced on Spa Francorchamps

Stood on the MotoGP grid at Laguna Seca and shook hands with Marquez & Rossi

Taught third graders fun math at 8am for 3 semesters

Learned all kinds of dance, from ballet to Argentine dance

Co-founded two companies

Walked to Rhode Island

Became a capable young professional

Rode a turtle to school

Learned a lot of idioms

Discovered my love for computers and startups

Lived by myself in Japan

Discovered Cheerwine

Created 67 Github Projects

Learned to paint watercolors and throw clay on a wheel

Played 7 different rugby positions and only got 1 concussion

Wrangled two angry roosters

Started an online resource for closeted and questioning youth

Ran in a Tough Mudder

Left Olin to build tools out of tiny computers…twice!

Spent four years modifying and racing my car

Got first place in University Physics competition

Built more cool things than I can list here

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Took enough ENGR classes for two degrees

Re-discovered my passion for creating visual art

Excavated a historical site in Waltham, MA

Became the adopted daughter my professor never knew he had

Learned calculus in a semester

Read more than 119 books

Published a paper in a SAIM journal

Learned how to spin fire-poi

Made silicon wafers for microfluidics in Mass General Hospital’s clean room in a bunny suit

Coordinated the Candidate’s Weekend Design Challenge – all four years!

Got a motorcycle license — despite strong parental skepticism

Successfully drove 10-year old car from the Bay Area to Olin — almost four times!

Built a lot of things, most of them worked. Broke a log of thing, fixed most of them

Learned to be a responsible adult (sort of…)

Became a real engineer

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