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I grew up in a small village between Padua and Venice in the North-East of Italy. I studied Classics and French at the University of Padua, and taught Italian language and Literature in France and Italy, and then for many years in Britain (1968-1995: Universities of Reading, Sussex and Edinburgh). My introduction to Eliot House took place in Spring 1994 when I was Visiting Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, and I lived with Anna and our two sons in J-11: the accommodation was tight but we all enjoyed the House and its community, and became very fond of both. The year after, having been offered a permanent professorship in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, we moved from Edinburgh (Scotland) to Cambridge, and, though we lived in another part of the city, we continued visiting Eliot House for various events, including the occasional Sunday brunch.
My main interests as a scholar are in the field of literature. I have published essays on the French and Italian Renaissance, in particular on Montaigne and French travelers to Italy. More recently, my research has focused on the Latin and Italian Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and contemporary Italian literature. I have a special interest in the tradition of the Song of Solomon and its importance in the development of love poetry in the Middle Ages. I have written extensively on Dante’s Divine Comedy, which I always find a challenge and a joy to teach to undergraduates in the Core Program, as well as in my department.
I had not practiced any sport at all until one morning in the Spring of 2000 seven Eliot undergraduates and a coxswain took me rowing on the Charles. From that moment on I was hooked!
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As the Resident Dean in Eliot House, I work closely with the other members of the House staff to support our students. In particular, I help students in planning and carrying out their academic pursuits and also resolving other situations as they arise. Please feel free to contact me in the House Office (N-22), or set up an appointment through Ree Russell, to discuss your plans or any concerns you may have. Don’t hesitate to come to me or one of our Resident Tutors if you have a question or concern and don’t know where to begin. We’re here to help.
In addition to my work at Eliot, I am a Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology currently teaching in the Freshman Seminar Program. It was my childhood ramblings through the forests of northern Michigan that instilled a love of biology and natural history that continues to fuel my studies on insects and evolution. During my graduate studies in biology here at Harvard I served as a Resident Tutor in Eliot House. It was during that time that I developed a similar fondness for the community here in Eliot, where I am happy to continue living with my wife Jen and our two sons, Mitchell and Riley.
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Hello,
My name is Francisco Medeiros, I am the building manager at Eliot House. I’m originally from Portugal, the Azores to be more exact, a small archipelago 1,500 Km from Lisbon. I lived there with my family for 37 years until we moved to the United States in 1992.
I have been working at Harvard University since August 1992, first at Dunster House as a custodian and for the last 8 years at Eliot . During my free time, I enjoy hiking with friends and family.
I like to attend the Eliot House Breakfast Club that meets every weekday morning at 8:00am in the Dining Hall. Stop by and join us!
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Hi, I have worked at Eliot House as Assistant to the Masters' for seven years and it's safe to say that I have the best job at Harvard. I meet the students as freshmen when they get their housing assignments on that famous Thursday in March and then three years later I see them walk across the terrace to receive their diploma, and not to mention everything in between.
While working at Harvard I have met some great people, made lasting friendships, planned many functions and rowed for the Eliot House Womens' Crew Team.
I live in Dedham with my husband Carl and our twin sixteen year old twin sons, Joseph and Philip. Our daughter, Brooke lives in Maine with her husband Steve.
I am here to help you with any housing questions or concerns, reserving a room or if you just want to chat.
You are also invited to attend the Eliot House Breakfast Club that meets every weekday morning at 8:00am in the Dining Hall. This is a great way to meet new people and have the most important meal of the day, all at the same time.
My office is located on the second floor of N entryway and is always open.
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I grew up surrounded by loving family, friends, and community in Thousand Oaks, a small city 40 minutes north of Hollywood. Even though I loved the comfort of my roots in Southern California, I was eager to explore the East Coast and the rest of the world. When I came to Harvard I managed to travel during all of the school breaks (once to China on a Radcliffe Traveling Fellowship) and took a semester off to live and study in Seoul.
After graduating with a degree in Social Studies in January 2003, I volunteered as an Americorps *VISTA for the University of California. As a *VISTA, I helped expand the UC’s educational outreach programs in East Los Angeles. Also while in California, I ran into Rich and we started dating. After we figured out that we wanted to date each other for the rest of our lives, I returned to Cambridge and began life over as an Assistant Editor for Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
I’m happy to share about my experiences studying or traveling abroad, or doing public service domestically. Also, feel free to involve me in any of your writing projects (academic or creative). Apart from work, I enjoy hiking, going to museums, playing table tennis, and arguing with Rich about our fantasy baseball teams. So if you ever feel the need to retreat into nature, modern art, miniaturized tennis, or the world of OBP and VORP, please let us know. We look forward to getting to know you!
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I am excited to be working with the Sophomores on Sophomore Advising this year. Juniors and Seniors - don't feel left out. I did fellowships with Jacy last year and am happy to answer any fellowship-related questions as well.
I am a graduate student studying developmental psychology at the Ed School and a native of Rhode Island. Although I lived in Rhode Island for my first 22 years, I bravely crossed the Atlantic to spend a year at the University of Cambridge on a Gates scholarship. Feel free to chat with me about study abroad – I had a great time!
As an only child, I spent many hours watching sports with my dad and am an avid Redsox, Patriots, and Bruins fan. I even spent a large part of my childhood playing ice hockey and look forward to cheering on Eliot’s IM team. That is not to say that I don’t have a girlish side. I competed in national and international ballroom competitions and met Jacy ballroom dancing. Feel free to stop by to watch those dancing TVs shows that I am addicted to, such as “So You Think You Can Dance?” and “Dancing with the Stars”.
Between the two of us, Jacy and I have applied for most of the major UK and International fellowship – feel free to ask me any questions if you are even thinking of applying for a fellowship. It’s best to start early as most of the major fellowships have multiple parts and many require sponsorship from the house.
We’re looking forward to meeting you all – stop by G-13 anytime for a cup of tea, a knitting party, or to watch the game!
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I'm very excited to be returning to house life as a Pre-Law Tutor in Eliot. I went to Harvard as an undergrad, Class of 2002, and am now going for the coveted "Triple H-Bomb" set of degrees as a student at Harvard Law and the K-School. I grew up a short drive down the Mass Pike in Newton, MA, and love all things Boston, including the Red Sox, the Patriots, the Celtics, clam chowder, jogging along the Charles, hating the Yankees, and complaining about traffic. Somehow I managed to escape adolescence with my ability to pronounce "R's" intact. I used to play for the Harvard Men's Ultimate team and look forward to training up the Eliot IM team into a well-oiled, efficient vehicle of disc-tossing domination.
Academically and professionally, my main interests are international law, human rights, conflict resolution, and foreign policy. I've traveled a lot to places like Morocco, Israel, Guatemala and Sierra Leone, and spent a few years in Washington, DC at a foreign policy think tank.
If you're looking for advice on law school, working or studying abroad, working in DC, or becoming a policy wonk, we should talk!
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Baha and Michael are premedical tutors in Eliot House. Baha is an attending optometrist and Michael is an attending ophthalmologist, both at the VA medical center, where they met in 2003. Born in Tehran, Baha grew up in Boston and studied at Holy Cross and the New England College of Optometry, followed by residency and fellowship at the VA. A native of western Pennsylvania, Michael studied at Yale, followed by internship and residency at Harvard hospitals. Michael also invents and develops medical devices. Baha and Michael like world travel, squirrels, making mosaic artwork, going to the gym early in the morning, and eating sushi and tapas. Baha and Michael do not like fire alarms or particularly large spiders.
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I grew up in North Reading, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard College, where I concentrated in English and lived in Winthrop House. After graduating in 2002, I moved to Los Angeles with dreams of rock stardom, but gave up after realizing that the world was not crying out for another Weezer clone. I moved to Orange County to work for Google as a Creative Maximizer and coached the office softball team to a winning season in my final year -- after posting a 4-26 record over the first three seasons.
As much as I loved the free food at Google and the amused reactions people had to my job title, I decided to apply to law school and then deferred for a year to do some volunteer work for a human rights organization called International Justice Mission. I spent six months in Cambodia, where the organization focuses on the issue of sex trafficking. When I got back, Esther and I got married, and I started at Harvard Law School in the fall of 2006. This past summer, I worked at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, where I’ve learned a good deal about criminal law and litigation, but my interests also include civil rights, human rights, international law, and legal theory. As someone who took four years off after college and came back to have a really great 1L experience, I’m especially happy to talk to students who are uncertain about whether law school is right for them.
At Eliot House, I’m looking forward to playing IM sports, watching Red Sox baseball at the Grille, and living a short walk away from the Boston Tea Stop. Please introduce yourself if you see me around the House. I’m excited to meet as many of you over the course of the year as I can!
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I am the resident tutor in D-entryway, which I have nicknamed the D Train. It's unclear whether or not anyone other than myself really appreciates this nickname.
I am beginning my third year in the Computer Science Ph.D. program. My main research consists of developing and deploying wireless sensor networks for volcano monitoring. To date we have completed two field deployments on active Ecuadorean volcanoes: Volcán Tungurahua (July 2004) and Volcán Reventador (August 2005). Working on volcanos is exciting and sometimes dangerous. Ask me about the time that a volcanic projectile destroyed one of our monitoring stations, only several days after we had been on site installing it.
I grew up in Chicago and Detroit, matriculating to Harvard in 1998 where I completed an undergraduate degree in Physics. My years in Lowell House were interrupted by a year of house-funded travel: 5 months in Europe and a long cross-country road trip including the famous California coastal drive. I definitely advocate taking time away during college, so if you're considering it come talk to me.
Outside of academics I enjoy music by playing the cello and the outdoors by river running and riding my bike around town. As a first-year tutor here I'm extremely excited to meet all of you. So if you are looking for Physics or CS help, a cellist for chamber music, a route for a long bike ride, or conversation about travel, politics, technology, music, volcanoes or really anything else, find me in D-24 or the dining hall.
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Hello! I am excited to be joining Eliot House this year as a tutor in H-entry. I am a second year doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education, studying higher education policy and the economics of
colleges and universities. I grew up in the great Midwest and spent my undergraduate years at the University of Minnesota (if you are ever nostalgic for a solid Midwestern accent, we should talk). I taught
undergraduate leadership courses at Minnesota for several years before moving to the University of Michigan for masters degrees in public policy and higher education. I recently spent a summer in Boulder, CO working on issues related to higher education policy and politics in each of the 50 states. It is an exciting time in education and politics, and I am always up for a good discussion on both.
Outside of school, I enjoy spending time outdoors, be it running, hiking, or even just sitting. I am a Big 10 football fan, a theatre lover, and a Garrison Keillor enthusiast. I also try to visit at
least one new place a year- this year, Japan, last year, South Africa. Most importantly, I really enjoy working with and getting to know undergraduates, and I look forward to a great year.
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"New Orleans, Argentina, India, Georgia Tech, Denmark." "Martial arts, family, service, dancing." Each of the above places and pursuits has played a large role in who I am. I was born and raised in New Orleans, where I lived until graduating from high school. Panache, an appreciation for jazz, and a diehard dedication to the Saints (go Reggie Bush!) are the results on my personality. My moms is from Argentina and pops from India. He was a ship captain and my parents sailed the world for 8 years before settling in New Orleans. Their past at sea gave me a yearning to travel and I've been to over 20 countries. Outside of travel, my main interest is martial arts, something I started as a young tyke and have continued since.
As an undergraduate “ramblin’ wreck from Georgia Tech and a helluva engineer,” I quickly became fascinated by the field of biomedical engineering. This fascination took me all the way to Aalborg, Denmark for a Master's degree, where I was able to work with experts in spinal cord injury. I came to Harvard in 2002 to pursue a Ph.D. in Medical Engineering because of the great opportunities for biomedical research. I am in a joint program through DEAS, HMS, and HST. Last year, I switched from being a pure PhD student to an MD-PhD student. Guess there's no such thing as too many degrees!
Please stop by B-32 any time to meet, catch up, or talk about anything that's on your mind!
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Hello! I’m delighted to be joining Eliot House as a fellowship tutor this year. Last year I finished my EdM in International Education Policy at HGSE, and currently I work at the Kennedy School of Government as the Associate Director for Research with the Women and Public Policy Program.
Originally from Minnesota , I came to the Boston area over ten years ago and have been here – aside from a couple of stints in Europe – ever since. I studied International Relations and German as an undergraduate at Wellesley College , and spent my junior year in Austria at the University of Vienna . Following graduation, I did a Fulbright fellowship on the Baltic Sea coast in Germany and loved every minute of it. For me, the experience was a treasured gift and fantastic adventure, and I look forward to working with those of you who are interested in applying for fellowships this coming year.
Outside of academia, I’ve spent time working with the US Department of State in Germany, the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, and a business strategy consulting firm here in Boston.
Please feel free to swing by C-21 to discuss all things related to fellowships, international education, public policy – or the latest independent and foreign films. I’m looking forward to meeting you!
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Hello! Currently a 3rd year medical student in Harvard's HST program, I'm a returning resident tutor in M-entryway.
Once upon a time, I was a biochemical sciences concentrator living next door in Winthrop House. I'm very familiar with the MD vs. PhD vs. MD-PhD debate as I actually began in the basic science track after graduation and then wound up applying to medical school a few years later. I completed a PhD in biology at MIT, and then began my MD work at HMS.
A resident of Cambridge for ~13 years, there are few places in the world I'd rather be. Among my favorite activities are biking along the Charles, practicing Iyengar yoga, cooking, and writing poetry. You might see me camped out in the dining hall or Eliot library with an array of medical textbooks. But don't let that stop you from interrupting me! I'm always happy to take a break from studying to chat about whatever might be on your mind.
Looking forward to meeting everyone this year!
Archive of Eliot's Favorite Poems 2008
April 1 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "To the River Charles"
April 2 - Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese"
April 3 - John Keats, "This Living Hand"
April 4 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"
April 5 - Alastair Reid, "The O-Filler"
April 6 - Aracelis Girmay, "For Estefani Lora, Third Grade, Who Made Me a Card"
April 7 - Wendy Cope, "The Orange"
April 8 - Catullus, "Poem 5"
April 9 - Mary Oliver, "The Journey"
April 10 - Garcilaso de la Vega, "Soneto"
April 11 - Siegfried Sassoon, "Suicide in the Trenches"
April 12 - Gary Snyder, "Changing Diapers"
April 13 - Carl Sandburg, "The Fog"
April 14 - Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
April 15 - folk poem often attributed to Ogden Nash, "What a Queer Bird"
April 16 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Voiceless"
April 17 - Rashid Shams, "Hum Say Kiya Pochty Ho" (trans. Ali Sethi)
April 18 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"
April 19 - Barbara Giles, "Mrs. Lorris, Who Died of Being Clean"
April 20 - Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art"
April 21 - T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
April 22 - Shel Silverstein, "The Bridge"
April 23 - e.e. cummings, "in time of daffodils"
April 24 - Denis Johnson, "The White Fires of Venus"
April 25 -Assata Shakur, "I Believe in Living"
April 26 - Czeslaw Milosz, "Love"
April 27 - Fyodor Tyutchev, "Silentium" trans. Vladimir Nabokov
April 28 - Kenneth Koch, "To My Twenties"
April 29 - Mary Jo Firth Gillett, "What I Believe, with Four Final Words by Li-Young Lee"
April 30 - Sheenagh Pugh, "Sometimes"
Archive of Eliot's Favorite Poems 2007
April 2 - e. e. cummings, "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond"
April 3 - Dean Young, "How I Get My Ideas"
April 4 - Emily Dickinson, "Hope"
April 5 - Wallace Stevens, "The Emperor of Ice Cream"
April 6 - William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 65"
April 7 - Lisel Mueller, "Letter From the End of the World"
April 8 - Ted Hughes, "The Thought Fox"
April 9 - Julia Spicher Kasdorf, "First Gestures"
April 10 - Adam Zagajewsky, "Try to Praise the Mutilated World"
April 11 - Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice"
April 12 - Stevie Smith, "Not Waving but Drowning"
April 13 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"
April 14 - Rhona McAdam, "I Looked Up to Find the Clouds"
April 15 - William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"
April 16 - William Ernest Henley, "Invictus"
April 17 - Tomas Transtromer, "After a Death"
April 18 - Billy Collins, "Marginalia"
April 19 - Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
April 20 - Derek Walcott, "Love After Love"
April 21 - Rudyard Kipling, "If"
April 22 - Rumi, "A Community of the Spirit"
April 23 - William Butler Yeats, "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
April 24 - Su Shi, [Will a moon so bright ever arise again?]
April 25 - Pablo Neruda, "Soneto XVII"
April 26 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Crossing the Bar"
April 27 - Allen Ginsberg, "Cosmopolitan Greetings"
April 28 - W.H. Auden, "The More Loving One"
April 29 - William Carlos Williams, "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"
April 30 - Richard Wilbur, "The Writer"
Please let me know if any of the links go dead. Thanks!
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I'm very excited about returning to Harvard and joining Eliot House as a pre-law tutor!
Currently, I am an attorney with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and my work primarily focuses on government contracts and environmental law. My practice spans both transactional and litigation work.
Born and bred a Californian, I'm the daughter of small town restauranteurs and always wanted to live in a metropolitan area. Consequently, I came to Harvard as an eager freshman and graduated in 2001 in Social Anthropology. After graduation, I set off to Nanjing, China, on a Harvard-Yenching fellowship and immersed myself in all things Chinese. When the fellowship ended, I started law school at Tulane in New Orleans. When I wasn't studying I was researching the next restaurant to visit. While there, I met James Ko, the pre-med tutor, who accompanied me on many of those visits.
My interests range, but here's a sampling: traveling; anything food-related; playing tennis and ping pong; good films (everything from artsy to Harold and Kumar go to White Castle); and talking about celebrity gossip...as well as more substantive issues.
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I studied studio arts, art history, and art theory at Rice University and the Maryland Institute College of Art. In my own work (primarily paintings and installations), I am interested in the impact of technology on the daily experience and expectation of time and space. A great deal of my artist education came in years between my undergraduate and graduate work when I ran my own studio and directed student programs at a not-for-profit art school. Whether you are a weekend photographer or a VES concentrator, consider me a resource for feedback on your artwork, information about graduate schools or careers in art.
I am also very interested in fitness and wellness, and hopr to haveyou over for some whole wheat chocolate chip cookies soon. Currently my work is in higher education right here at Harvard, where I am the director of residential programs in the College. But my newest (and by far my favorite) career is mom to Mitchell and Riley – our new twin boys. I truly look forward to getting to know you in the coming year!
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Originally from San Diego, California, I came to the East Coast in 1998 to study at Amherst College and graduated in 2002 with a degree in political science. While an undergrad, I spent my junior year studying international relations and human rights at the London School of Economics.
From a young age, I've had a strong sense of wanderlust and have been fortunate to visit over twenty countries on five continents. A dual citizen of both Ireland and the US, I'm always eager to travel across the Atlantic or beyond...I spent a year living in a rural town in Japan as a JET teacher – the only foreign female in town! – and more recently, spent January and February in Sierra Leone and Liberia with the International Rescue Committee.
I've had diverse experiences in human rights and foreign policy as an intern at the US Department of State and also as a law clerk on the Milosevic prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal (ICTY) for the former Yugoslavia. I became particularly interested in the ICTY's work after being a Humanity in Action Fellow researching minority rights in Berlin.
Currently, I am the Program Coordinator for the University Committee on Human Rights Studies and hope to get many of you involved in the Committee's events and work. As part of my role, I coordinate the Scholars at Risk Program which has been deeply rewarding.
I'm excited to be at Eliot House and look forward to meeting all of you. If you have any questions – particularly about human rights, travel, teaching and/or studying abroad, and public service opportunities – please contact me!
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When I arrived at Harvard in 1997, I expected to study math and then apply to medical school. Somehow, I ended up with a degree in chemistry and thoughts of pursuing a career in music. After graduation I stuck around to teach in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and a couple years later I enrolled as a music student as Boston University. I’ve since finished my master’s and am currently working towards a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting. Here at Harvard I work with the Holden Choirs, this year as the assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club. I've also been a TF for many different chem classes over the past several years.
My academic interests lie in the sacred polyphony and sectarian conflicts of 16th century England, but I’ll confess a fabulous weakness for 80’s tunes. Aside from choral music and science education, my other interests include politically-incorrect animation (i.e. South Park), old-school Nintendo games, Red Sox baseball, shellfish, current politics and unfiltered media (i.e. blogs), exploring new restaurants, and compulsively shopping for CDs and music books.
You’ll find me in Eliot going over gen-chem or orgo with students in the dining hall, studying scores at the piano in the JCR, or drinking too much coffee over breakfast. I’m looking forward to meeting you – drop me a line if you ever want help with chemistry, if you want someone to join you at a concert (or a Sox game), or if you just want to schmooze about life and watch a DVD.
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I'm excited to join Eliot this year as a resident business tutor. Five years ago, I bade farewell to Dunster House to try out the business world in New York and discovered that the person who entered Harvard College intending to become a pediatrician was really meant to have fun on construction sites and get excited by cool financial modeling tricks in Microsoft Excel. I've spent the last three years working on real estate and economic development projects in urban areas throughout the country after a two year stint in management consulting for the healthcare industry. This summer, I traveled through Spain improving my Spanish, checking out architecture and infrastructure projects, and enjoying siesta.
I almost took the MCAT, took the LSAT and GMAT, and finally decided to attend Harvard Business School, so I'm happy to discuss any career exploration questions you might have. Hopefully two years from now I'll still believe that you can do good things for the community and make a profit without "selling out."
I love to cook, discuss politics, and most days I'll try to go for a run (except after Stein Club). Despite growing up in Florida and Jamaica, I'm also a budding snowboarder, so you may see me with some bruises come winter. Looking forward to a great year!
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It is great to be returning to Eliot house with my wife, Kathleen. I grew up in Washington, DC, but went to boarding school in New England and I feel like the area has been my home since. Before coming to Harvard, I spent a year in Australia on a Fulbright fellowship. While there, I investigated the role of heat and mass transfer on coral bleaching, which loosely translated into going Scuba diving…a whole lot (it was a tough life). Feel free to chat with me about study abroad, life in Australia – I loved it there. Despite the lack of mango trees and constantly gorgeous weather, I am
excited to be back in New England.
At Harvard, I am now in my fourth year in the Engineering division studying fluid dynamics. I love to explore everyday phenomena and am currently investigating how bubbles burst. Don’t be too surprised if you see me in the dinning hall conducting little experiments with icecream and soda.
Outside of school I love to play ultimate Frisbee, write music, and of course help you put together an awesome fellowship package. As one of your fellowship tutors, I am responsible for helping you through the entire fellowship process. I’ll be able to point you to resources at OCS and Eliot. I’ll also be happy to talk you through how to write a statement of purpose and a research proposal.
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I am a seventh-year PhD student in the English department, specializing in parabiblical literatures of the late Middle Ages. If you’re curious about what that means (or wonder, as I do at times, if it means anything at all), please ask: chatting with people about what I’m doing helps me articulate the project’s outlines, and that work, it turns out, is crucial and ongoing. In fact, please come chat me up about anything—literary, medieval or otherwise. I’m a writing tutor here at Eliot, and I look forward to the challenge of helping you articulate your ideas, too.
I was born and raised in southern California, educated in northern California (go Cal Bears!), and came to Harvard after a few post-college years of work and travel. A suit-and-tie job had me living in Mexico City and Detroit for a year apiece, and after another year spent in scholarly retirement (read: utter, joyous penury) back in Berkeley, I set out on what is still, alas, the longest single trip I’ve taken, a trek throughout Europe and some of the Middle East. Please advise about where I should go next! I’d also be especially keen to hear from people who manage to fit novel-reading, a neglected passion of mine, into an academic schedule; anyone into punk rock, skateboards, alternative comics or east coast surf spots; and all you fans of MLB—my twin loves of the Sox and the Dodgers are almost wholly compatible. But as a leading light in my profession says of what we do, one reads because one can never know enough people in real life: I want to know everyone, am I’m happy that we here at Eliot help populate one another’s lives.
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I grew up in the snowy wilds of Canada (Toronto, to be exact) and came to Harvard as a member of the class of 2000. I am currently a resident in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital and I will be serving as a pre-medical tutor.
I studied biology in college, but my real education came through my extracurriculars which included singing in the Callbacks, serving as a prefect, and working in college outreach programs at Byerly Hall. After graduation, I worked in the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital and I also spent a year as a freshman proctor.
New Orleans, Louisiana was my next stop. When I wasn't dodging hurricanes or eating crawfish, I completed M.D. and M.P.H. degrees at Tulane University. I was also lucky enough to meet the lovely Ching Han Wong, who will also be joining Eliot as a pre-law tutor.
My interests include running, traveling, and food. Ching and I are especially excited to host study breaks this year, and we are looking forward to meeting all of you!
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I was born and raised in Israel, where I studied architecture at the Technion (Israel Institute of technology) in the beautiful port city of Haifa. After graduating, I became more and more involved in furniture design and woodworking. The desire to create a piece from scratch, to be able to design, plan and craft it with my own hands eventually led me to become a Studio Furniture artist. In my work I combine the old and new, using found objects and discarded wood as a source and inspiration for the pieces that I build. After completing a two-year stint as an Artist-in-Residence at the Worcester Center for Crafts, and several apprenticeships in the Boston area, I joined Eliot House as a non-resident tutor for art and woodworking.
For the last three years I have been teaching a weekly woodworking seminar at the Eliot House Wood Shop. Our class is tailored and designed for Eliot House students, where they can turn their own ideas into works of decorative art. In the past, we have had our own art exhibition -- The River Show -- curated by Eliot's art tutor Jen Canfield and myself, as part of Harvard's Arts First Festival. Some examples of students' works in last year's show include a knockdown bench, a chess board, and an oak table. Creating with your hands is a great way to relax and unwind after a stressful day of sitting in class. Beginners are most welcome !
Please feel free to contact me with questions about our woodshop, or if you are interested in woodworking and furniture design. I am always delighted to converse in Hebrew, as well !
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Hello Eliot House! I am thrilled to be joining the Eliot community as a Business Non-Resident Tutor this fall -- and look forward to meeting as many of you as possible.
By way of brief background, my affiliation with Harvard began in 1999 when I started the JD/MBA program here. After graduating in 2003, I worked at BCG for 4 years, only to return to Harvard again this fall as a Doctoral Student in Management at HBS. (My own 4+4+4 plan....) My research focuses on the management issues related to organizational agility--the differential ability of organizations to successfully execute new strategies. Specific areas of current research interest include: increasing returns on talent; the transformation of managerial approaches to strategy execution and change; and the influence of regulatory regimes on the structure of business organizations.
I'm originally from Los Angeles and have an A.B. in Economics from Amherst College. Although I'm not involved in law on a daily basis, I am a member of the New York and Massachusetts Bar Associations and serve on the Harvard Law School Dean's Advisory Council -- so I'm happy to answer questions about law and law school as well.
As you think about what to do post-graduation, feel free to bounce thoughts off of me -- as I've bounced around between a surprising number of different things, from the White House to Wall Street. (One might say that I can't hold a job....)
On the personal side, I am an culinary adventurer and avid traveler, and I have completed four 500km+ cycling trips--through Ireland, Alaska, Nova Scotia, and California. I also have a strong interest in Japanese culture, society, and business. I studied at Doshisha University in Kyoto, spent 15 months working at BCG in Japan, and speak Japanese.
See you all in the dining hall soon!
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I graduated from Eliot House as an undergraduate in 2003. I now work for a software company based in Cambridge called Endeca and live in Davis Square. I have stayed involved with the House as advisor for the Eliot House Facebook and non-resident tutor in Computer Science for the past three years. If you have questions about either Computer Science or the software industry, please let me know -- I am always happy to talk about both. In my free time there's a lot that I like to do, but at the top the list is travel (that's me with Cervantes in Toledo, Spain) -- if you have any suggestions of great places to visit, let me know!
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My name is Eliot Rushovich and I am currently a third year, or 3-L, at Harvard Law School. I am from Irvine, California and grew up playing water polo, going to the beach, and of course, studying.
I attended college here at Harvard, concentrating in Social Studies and living in neighboring Winthrop House. After graduating in 2003, I took a year off to travel and then returned to Harvard Law School in 2004 for three more years of Crimson. On my spare time I like to surf, snowboard, play squash and golf, and above all, have fun.
After I graduate I intend to work in Los Angeles as an transactional lawyer with a large law firm called O’Melveny & Myers. My work will involve a mixture of drafting and negotiating contracts and deals for studios and other LA-based corporate entities.
During my 1-L summer I clerked at the City Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles in the Police Litigation Unit, defending Los Angeles Police Officers in civil lawsuits involving excessive force, false arrest, and malicious prosecution. Although I find litigation very interesting (particularly criminal defense work), I find myself headed towards a life of corporate law and business.
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This is my third year as a Non-Resident Tutor in creative writing in Eliot House.
I received my Master of Liberal Arts degree in English and American literature from Harvard in June 2006, and I have a BA in anthropology. I'm a freelance journalist and editor, and have done work for a wide variety of media outlets, from small town newspapers to the Associated Press. If you'd like more information on my writing you can check out my website: www.literarycomments.com
At Eliot House I am happy to provide constructive criticism and feedback to all members of the Eliot House community on academic and creative writing, and will gladly try and answer any questions relating to publishing or working in print journalism. In terms of other activities in the house I also organize the Eliot House Hebrew language table and I am happy to lend a hand with any arts-related projects.
I have a wide range of interests, so when I am not writing or researching I enjoy kayaking, hiking, playing guitar, trying to speak Hebrew and Spanish, and discussing international relations, poetry and modern fiction. Please feel free to say hi if you see me around the house, and if you have a writing-related matter to discuss send me an email and we can set up a time to meet.
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I graduated from medical school in England, and started my surgical training in the UK. I first came to Boston in 1998, and spent 2 years as a Surgical Research Fellow at HMS, while living at Eliot house as a Resident Scholar. Following a brief return to England, I decided to move back to the US, and have since completed my surgical residency and a fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery. I joint the faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School this summer. Apart from my clinical interests, I have a basic science lab where we study factors modulating intestinal absorptive capacity. The lab consists of a lab manager and 3 research fellows. I would be happy to help any of the house members with finding appropariate medical/ surgical research mentors, and would be glad to involve you in our laboratory.
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Since I couldn't bear leaving fair Eliot and Cambridge behind, I decided to stick around for another half-decade or so after graduating in 2003. Now, in my 4th year as a PhD in Business Economics (a joint program between HBS and the GSAS) and 3rd as a non-res Ec Tutor, I'm glad to still be around the old Domus.
A few random Eliot memories: rowing House Crew for 3 years (only to lose to Kirkland one year by a half-seat after making up 2 or 3 boat lengths... and then graduating the year before Eliot finally won the Cup); rounding up a rooming group of 25 and building the GZ bar (which I hope still resides in C-42 where it belongs); getting kicked in the head during the Fete by a swing arial gone awry; and routinely watching Lino dominate on the foosball table.
If you see me around the house grabbing a meal, definitely say hi as I'm always up for talking, reminiscing, or dispensing nuggets of wisdom. Also, if you're interested in or have questions about Ec, grad school, b-school, or just want to talk about baseball, drop me a line and we can meet up as well.
[In case you're wondering, I'm the one on the right.]
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I graduated from Harvard College in 2003. As an undergraduate, I lived in Eliot and was a psychology concentrator. I was very involved with PBHA, the Prisoner Education Program, and the (now defunct) Coalition Against Sexual Violence. This is my third year as a non-resident tutor in psychology. I am currently a second-year Ph.D. student in clinical psychology. My research is on suicidal and self-injurious behavior. I am also doing clinical work at a school for children with emotional and behavioral problems.
I love all sorts of outdoor activities, running, swimming, biking, scuba diving, and yoga. I am happy to talk to students about psychology, graduate school, or anything else.
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This is my first year as a Non-Resident Art Tutor at Eliot, and I am excited to work with anyone who is looking for a little help in realizing their creative vision.
In the woodshop, Non-Resident Tutor Yoav Liberman and I will be teaching a woodworking and design class that is open to students with any amount of experience, including those who have never used a saw or hammer. We will be offering the class in both the fall and spring semesters. Students will have a chance to exhibit their work in Eliot’s own "River Show", during the Arts First Festival. Feel free to contact me or Yoav if you’re interested in taking the course or using the shop on your own.
I also am available to work with you in the art studio on other sorts of projects. If you would like to use the space for drawing, painting, print-making, collage, animation, or anything else you can think of, just let me know and I’ll get you set up with the space and resources you need.
I would also love to chat with anyone who is interested in contributing to the murals in the basement corridor.
I was born and grew up in a small town in The White Mountains of New Hampshire. I studied woodworking and ceramics at the Maine College of Art, in Portland, ME. I currently live in Cambridge where I work as a claymation artist, woodworker, and free-lance art installer. When I’m not making art, I try to spend as much time as possible backpacking, skiing and rock-climbing. I also love playing my ukulele, walking on my stilts, and occasionally doing both at the same time.
Hope to see you around.
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Hello all! This is my first experience tutoring in Eliot House. I’m a second-year PhD student in the department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology with a focus on plant physiology. I grew up in Southeastern Pennsylvania where I received a B.M. from Temple University in Jazz Performance (I know...big jump to biology). After graduating from Temple U., I worked as a musician and a teacher for several years before I got the itch to do some traveling. To satisfy that urge, I hiked both the entire Long Trail in Vermont and the entire Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Prior to coming to Harvard, and in an effort to switch careers, I received a M.S. in Forest Biology from the University of Vermont. Outside of any biology questions that you might have, if you want to talk Red Sox or fly fishing, find a great place to hike near Cambridge, get advice on graduate school, or put together a music group, come talk to me.
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Hi!
I graduated with an A.B. in anthropology from Brown University in 2006 and am now officially a "G1" in social anthropology here at Harvard. At Brown, I served as President of the Anthropology Department Undergraduate Group (DUG), where I helped bring faculty and students together for dinners and lectures. My research interests lie within the realm of medical anthropology, which includes such topics as the doctor-patient relationship, social suffering, and cross cultural psychiatry. I'm also very interested in biological anthropology (since I did my undergraduate thesis on the relationship of stress hormones to stature in an adult Samoan population).
If you have any questions about anthropology or just want to chat about culture, medicine, biological anthropology, or anything else, just email me! As someone who has some experience with journalism and reporting, I'm also very interested in current events and politics and definitely enjoy non-academic discussions as well. I sometimes study in the Eliot Dining Hall or the library, so you might also find me there.
I'm originally from Springfield, Illinois (Abe Lincoln's hometown) and spent my entire life in both downstate Illinois (AKA Springfield) and Chicago, so I always look forward to meeting other fellow Illinois folks. If you ever want to visit Illinois or Chicago and don't know what to see, contact me!
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I am in my second year at Harvard Law School. I am from Los Angeles and am interested in intellectual property and civil rights law. I enjoy soccer, Salvadoran food, and opportunities to practice my Spanish, French or Portuguese. My role is to make myself available to students interested in law school. I am happy to share advice and information about my experiences. I will also be assigned to a few students to help guide them through the law school application process.
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First, where I’m from. I was born in India, spent 9 years in Galveston, TX, and then moved to the DC area before heading to college. I’d like to think I combine the folksy wisdom and friendliness of a Texan with the cosmopolitanism of a DC-area kid, but who am I kidding. I really love literature, mostly more modern stuff, and I try to consistently be reading a novel despite the law school workload. I’d say I love to dance (hip hop, with a workable samba, and well-intentioned stabs at salsa), but it’s been a while since I’ve really broken it down. Law school people don’t dance much, surprisingly. If anyone ever wants to have a discussion about books or reality T.V. and its epic themes (or, I guess, about law school), I’m down. Just drop me an email. As for the practice of law, my experience with it is limited to my work this summer at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. That said, I did get to hang out a little with cops and attorneys and feel like a bit of a bad-ass from time to time.
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I grew up about as far around the globe as you can get from Boston without starting to come back - home is Malaysia, and high school was in Singapore. Lured by the extravagant liberal arts promise that I wouldn't have to decide on a major for my first 2 years, I went to Yale, recklessly experimenting in Economics, Literature and Art History before deciding on History. After graduation I worked in various research jobs, but when I realized that I really enjoyed rummaging through old documents at the Library of Congress, I knew it was time for grad school. I'm now completing my PhD in Asian history, and this would be my 4th year affiliated with Eliot House (Domus!). I enjoy dance, travel, documentaries and museums, and often pine for the hot sunshine and spicy food of home. If you're interested in History or East Asian studies, look me up!
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I graduated from Northwestern University in 2001 with a B.A. in Economics and joined Morgan Stanley as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Chicago office and subsequently worked in New York, specializing in Health Care. I then left Morgan Stanley in 2004 to work as a Director of a non-profit focused on helping women in business.
I am currently pursuing my MBA at HBS (general management studies) and will graduate in the spring of 2007.
I spent this past summer working at McKinsey and Company as a associate consultant in the Chicago office. I am also a co-president of the Women's Student Association at HBS.
I am happy to help with all business related recruiting questions. Having worked in both banking and consulting I can help you compare. I have also interned at some corporations and for the government so can help there too.
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Born and raised in sunny Greece, I got to spent most of my childhood summers on a beautiful island in the mediterranean. Not surprisingly, the sea and everything that has to do with it defines most of who I am.
After finishing college in Athens, I decided to cross the atlantic for a graduate degree in physics in the states. When I am not doing research, one can find me practicing martial arts, or watching movies at the harvard film archive. My Thursday nights, however, are reserved for one of the most fun activities of the week: discussing physics in the Eliot house dining hall!
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Oh Eliot, it's so good to be back!
It seems like only yesterday, in freshman year, I heard the news, the lottery I didn't lose. I packed my bags and made my way to Eliot House!
Those were the days: Lollygagging in the dining hall, learning tons about history (medieval/ancient), architecture and philosophy over in the Yard, and running across the river in the afternoons to play a game of squash.
Then in '04 it all came crashing to an end! Back to Chicago and a job at Citigroup. In that time I decided that I didn't want to go to law school after all (have you seen the LSAT?!). So after three long years, I returned to Boston to pursue my MBA at HBS. It was well worth the wait and I'm now in my second year.
I'm hoping I can get to know as many of you as possible and I look forward to acting as a sounding board and/or a font of wisdom and advice. Take it with a grain of salt. Some of the things I can maybe talk about include studying history (and finding a job afterward), working in finance and banking, applying to graduate school in England (talk to someone else about actually going), and applying for internships in government here and abroad (during college I worked for the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican and the White House). See you around.
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Hi! I'm Parin.
Originally Eliot House Class of 2004 (wow I can't believe it's been that long), I'm now a non-res premed tutor at the big E.
I lived above Ground Zero (a floor affectionately known as "Sub-Zero") for 2 years while studying Biochemistry and Classics at Harvard, and a year at Oxford, UK. Now I'm at Harvard Medical School, still coming back to Cambridge for good old favorites like 'Nocchs and Herrell's. Shoot me an email if you want to chat about life, the universe, or everything...or if you have any questions about the pre-med/med process, going abroad, or if you just want a good old rendition of "gaudeamus igitur" over a cold drink. Cheers!
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Hi Eliot!
I'm a 2006 Eliot House graduate in Economics. I am currently working at Bain & Co in Boston, a management consulting firm.
Feel free to reach out to me to chat about any step of the recruiting process, from info gathering, to resume writing, to interviews, to the decision process. I can also give some perspective in related fields such as government and non-profit as well!
In terms of personal experience, I did investment banking for one summer, worked in city government for one summer, worked at a foundation for one summer, and worked with New Sector Alliance non-profit consulting for a semester.
In the long term I'm interested in doing Overseas Private Equity for the purpose of economic development, specifically in Asia. This is an still an area that I'm exploring so if you're interested, feel free to join me in this exploration!
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I was born in London, and grew up in Manhattan and Washington D.C. As a teenager I was at boarding school in CT (Hotchkiss), which was a good change of scene from the city. I arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1997. I studied Studio Art and Classics (Greek), spent a lot of time in the theater, rowed crew, and did a lot of dancing in New York on weekends. After graduation, I moved to San Francisco to build out and live in a warehouse in SOMA, where I made art, edited application essays, painted houses, and tutored kids. After a year or so I decided to get serious about art, so I moved to Brooklyn for more painting (oil on canvas, non-representational, color).
In 2003, world events (including the PATRIOT Act) precipitated my application to law school. After realizing that law school would allow me to effect changes in the world, I decided to apply on the last day of LSAT registration. That's how I ended up back and Harvard, where I have been happily reading ever since. I am heading for a career in criminal justice, either as a defense attorney or a lawyer doing structural reform work. I also have strong interests in civil rights work generally, intellectual property, the theory of law, jurisprudence, and constitutional law. I have been a Justice TF and a Bioethics TF, as well as an advisor for a senior thesis on comparative bioethics.
Update: I have now graduated from HLS, but I continue to be available to speak to Eliot students about planning for law school. Please email the webmaster for my current contact information.
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I am spending the year at Harvard as a faculty fellow of the Safra Center for Ethics. I am an economist (normally based at Columbia University) with an interest in philosophy. Much of my work is on issues related to world poverty. I did an undergraduate degree, M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard and am delighted to be back. I look forward to conversation with house members, especially undergraduates.
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