Keerthi, an only child, was born in India and moved to the United States when she was a year old. She has lived in the most random places (Texas, South Dakota, and Arkansas) and is proud to say that her family now lives in Massachusetts. She has visited forty-five of the fifty states (Alaska, Oregon, Oklahoma, Indiana, and South Carolina are the remaining five). Randomness pretty much defines her lifestyle. 
When she was young she attempted to construct a full-scale airplane with just computer paper (this is what happens when you’re an only child and are trying to find something to do). That didn’t really work too well, so she decided to stick to her mega-awesome glow-in-the-dark blocks. Keerthi has often been told that she holds her pencil in a weird way and her fork with the “wrong” hand, and she plans to keep it that way. She is known for her belly dancing fingers, sarcasm, overactive facial expressions, germophobia, and quirkiness. Her favorite words are “swell” and “dandy.” This lass also loves British accents, going on walks, and visiting national parks. She enjoys reading, rocking out to music, star gazing, having fun with puns, playing the piano and oboe, tennis, and tae kwon do. Someday she hopes to go skydiving, parasailing, and backpacking through Europe. For now, Keerthi plans to major in Molecular Biology at Princeton. She is loving her experience at the university so far. She is not a total science geek; she enjoys studying art and poetry and would like to learn photography. Keerthi had never heard of Toulouse-Lautrec until she took this class. She decided to do her research topic on him because he was known to be eccentric, fun-loving, and a nonconformist. His short stature was especially attractive. She decided it was too good to be true and that they were just meant to be. The end.