Sarah is a member of the class of 2008 at Princeton University, where she studies Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. So how, might you ask, did she decide to take a Writing Seminar on Impressionist Art? She'll tell you it’s the farthest one could possibly remove themselves away from math and science courses. That’s not to say she doesn’t like art—she still enjoys visiting museums all over the world, but twenty years down the road, she’d rather be building rockets for NASA than analyzing paintings.
For her final project, she decided to write about Post-Impressionist Georges Seurat because he was the only artist in this era who exemplified the rare but intriguing bridge between science and art. It gave Sarah the opportunity to revert back to the same books Seurat read in 1880 when he studied color theory. She was very happy to find that, despite common perception, art can be scientific!
Aside from her interests in science and art, Sarah considers herself a pilot of many things. She is coxswain on the Men’s Lightweight Crew Team at Princeton (yes, girls are allowed on the men’s team!), where she steers a 60-foot long boat with a rudder the size of a credit card while motivating the team. She also enjoys flying planes when she’s home in California. Of course, she also drives cars, but it isn’t quite as easy as it sounds; Sarah got her pilot’s license before she got her driver’s license, and still experiences some trouble making the adjustment from a plane with left and right steering pedals to a car’s brake and accelerator, making for some tough times at forks in roads.