Class Note 2024. This month I posed a question: “What puts you in a state of flow?”
For Anne Guidera ’25, the answer is skiing. She writes, “Feeling the wind on my face as I am skiing down the mountains puts me in a state of flow. Bonus points if I am with friends and the chairlift to the top is filled with laughter! I was recently skiing with Sophie Weiner ’25 in Colorado and I wore my Dartmouth club ski team jacket. I got stopped multiple times by someone who had a connection to the school: a New Hampshire native, a current student at Tuck, even someone from the class of ’86!”
Jenna Martin stayed for a fifth year at Dartmouth to complete her master’s in mechanical engineering and continued to row. “Rowing puts me in a state of flow because I get to experience where I live with unique perspective. Whether it is exploring parts of the Connecticut River that most students don’t get to see or rowing on the Charles River and viewing Boston from below, rowing allows me to appreciate where I am.” Jenna now works as a mechanical design engineer at Draper and is grateful to still be rowing.
Ningning Sun, who is pursuing her Ph.D. in Arctic anthropology and environmental social sciences at the University of Lapland in Finland, was awarded a grant for her research “Technologising Reindeer Herding: Plural Ontologies of Tradition, Technology, and Multispecies Relations in Transformation.” Her project aims to explore the dialectical relationship between technology and reindeer herding societies amid rapid social-ecological changes, specifically the integration of technology and innovation with tradition in Arctic land-based livelihoods. You are the coolest, Ningning!
I had the pleasure of spending a weekend in New York for Sheba dance troupe’s 30-year alumni reunion. It was very special to be reunited with fellow Sheba ’24s Lily Scott and Elizabeth Ding. As part of her role as a forward deployed engineer at Palantir, Lily had been hopping back and forth between New York and Mobile, Alabama (the birthplace of Mardi Gras, she informs us). When she’s not streamlining manufacturing processes at legacy companies or supporting the U.S. government’s efforts to implement software to support [REDACTED], she’s been immersing herself in the practice and history of yoga. Elizabeth, who’s an investment banker at Jeffries, referred best friend Adriana Chavira Ochoa to her firm, and now, in an exciting turn of events, they are coworkers! Elizabeth’s and Adriana’s sweet friendship, which began when they roomed together in Mid Fayerweather freshman winter, is a perfect encapsulation of the enduring bonds forged at Dartmouth.
Back in Boston, I ran into Alex Sawyer at a mutual friend’s party. It was a blustery, winter day and we enjoyed comforting, homemade pho and played an entertaining board game called Ticket to Ride. Alex, currently a consultant at Bain, hopes to return to Hanover as an M.B.A. candidate at the Tuck School of Business. Her primary objective is not to learn how to build a discounted cash flow model, rather she jokes that she’s intent on getting her “MRS.”
When waiting in line for frozen yogurt at Harvard Square, I turned around to see Keren Luo behind me! Keren and I had been group project partners in Advanced Topics in Econometrics. She had just finished playing tennis with her boyfriend and was looking very sporty in her navy blue jacket emblazoned with the Olympics logo, a fracket extracted from the depths of the Alpha Chi Delta closets.
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—Anaïs Zhang, 16 Hamilton Road, Brookline, MA 02446; anais.c.zhang@gmail.com