Happy New Year, ’14s! 2015 marks a big year for us. It will be the first full year we are out in the “real world.” Well, I shouldn’t say “we.” Unlike many of you who are traveling the world or calling new places home, I am in Hanover still freezing my eyelashes off. However, I do have a pretty big New Year’s resolution. I will do this fifth winter in the Upper Valley right and actually ski. I implore all of you to hold me to this goal.


Some of you emailed me with updates or New Year’s resolutions. So, let’s get to it!


Dylan Assal writes in, “Right now I’m a first-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (in New York City). I’m studying the standard medical curriculum while also trying to gain experience in technology and business. Over the next year I hope to become more active in community involvement.”


Rachel Aragon is currently working as a general assignment reporter in Bozeman, Montana, for a local ABC/Fox affiliate station. She is slowly embracing the outdoors of the Big Sky country and hopes to squeeze in some traveling in the new year!


Nathaniel “Nate” Davis is living in Boston, where he is working at Treacy & Co., a management consulting firm located in Needham, Massachusetts. His New Year’s resolution is to begin giving back financially to Dartmouth. 


Devin Chu started his first year of graduate school in astronomy at UCLA. He is currently researching the orbits of stars around the supermassive black hole located in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. He works for professor Andrea Ghez, principal investigator of UCLA’s galactic center group. 


Last summer Kali Pruss traveled to Peru (highlights, according to her, were the Salkantay trek to Machu Picchu and traveling to the Peruvian Amazon basin) and Maui, Hawaii. She also traveled along the East Coast visiting friends in Washington, D.C., New York City and Boston. Currently, Kali is a first-year microbiology and immunology Ph.D. student in the biosciences department at Stanford. She says, “It’s a five-plus-year program, so everyone has plenty of time to come visit me.”


Wei Wu and Joseph Styer got married on August 2, 2014, in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Congratulations, Wei and Joseph! Best of luck to you both. 


Amber Porter moved to New York City this fall to work as the production assistant for Tony Award-winner John Doyle and his production of Allegro at Classic Stage Company. Michael Berger moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, after graduation and has been working for an environmental consulting firm on the cleanup and restoration of the Gulf Coast after the BP oil spill. 


Sonja (Ali) Uribe spent her fall at home in Hamburg, Germany, where she enjoyed hanging out with her dogs and working a few internships. This February she will be traveling to Australia for four months to work at a dive shop and travel around the continent. José Valdovinos is working as a junior analyst at Acento Advertising in Santa Monica, California. Nikolas (Nik) Medrano has been working in recruiting at Box, a cloud storage and content management company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is working to grow Box’s rapidly expanding sales team. He loves San Francisco, saying, “It’s been an awesome experience so far. I ride around on a scooter all day, and I couldn’t be happier!”


Keep sending updates my way! I love hearing from you all!


—Jessica Womack, 6034 Hinman, Hanover, NH 03755; jessica.r.womack@dartmouth.edu