It all began this past summer...
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It all began this past summer...

Hey there! Welcome to my new blog, a continuation of my old blog: Adventures in Internships.

For those of you who’ve kept up with my previous blog, you know by now that I am currently enrolled in a course here at Caltech this term called E/ME 105: Product Design for the Developing World. You may also have read about my adventure in Guatemala this past summer as I traveled the country and visited rural Mayan communities in search of insight and firsthand knowledge to designing a tool to improve lives and small businesses in such countries. If you haven’t read my last blog—go check it out and get caught up on all the fun so that you can further understand what this blog is about.:)

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