What did you study in college?

I had a major in Classical Studies (with honors) and a minor in Statistics. The “honors” means I wrote a lengthy research paper about bad Christians reading a bad translation of Plato in Roman Egypt.

What did you actually study?

  • Languages: Ancient Greek (Attic & Homeric), some Latin, a lot of R.
  • Reading: ancient texts, histories, mathematical proofs.
  • Writing: short essays (3-5 pages), longer research papers (12-18 pages), independent projects for statistics courses. Plus: some very unrelated classes, the best of which was intermediate astrophysics.

What have you done since college?

  • Summer 2017: Graduated, a bit of travel, moved back to Philly with one suitcase.
  • Fall 2017: Worked operations and event-planning at a social-justice synagogue in West Philly. Handshake work around the theatre community. Read novels, secondhand bike, weekly CSA.
  • Jan 2018–now: No. 7(?) @ Fishtown Analytics, now dbt Labs. I’m a “Product Manager” (whatever that means), working on a little piece of open-source software, trying to keep the music playing.
  • Aug 2021: Moved to Marseille, France.

Tell me about some of your other interests.

I love theatre, enough to love it even when I hate it. Malheureusement, I haven’t been doing much since moving to France, sauf the act of my everyday existence.

I spend a lot of time reading, sometimes the right things. I quite like n+1 and Jewish Currents.

Have you read…?

Maybe!

What else should we talk about?

Politics, religion, language, climate crisis, poetry

Where do you see yourself in x year(s)?

Je ne sais pas !

 

 

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