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Sky's not the limit for physics whiz Sabrina Pasterski

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Sky's not the limit for physics whiz Sabrina Pasterski
> http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2015/08/30/lifestyle/technology/901866.txt

> Sabrina Pasterski has always rushed toward the next goal, sometimes
> charting a path quite different from her peers' - whether it was
> learning to fly a plane long before she learned to drive a car,
> anticipating the next motorcycle she'll buy or plotting dreams for a
> future in physics. The 22-year-old always has bigger plans.
>
> When she returns to Harvard University in September, she'll be
> pursuing her doctorate in theoretical high energy physics at the
> Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature. Prior to Harvard, she
> graduated in 2013 - in just three years - at the top of her physics
> class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the first woman
> to do so in decades. In July, she was one of 12 honored with a
> $250,000 Hertz Fellowship, designed to invest in the future of
> scientific exploration.

> Her fascination with what's above Earth began early. As a child,
> Pasterski, who attended Chicago Public Schools' Edison Regional
> Gifted Center, decided she wanted to send someone to Mars. At 12, an
> age when many struggle with sustaining their attention span for
> homework, she spent nearly two years building an airplane that she
> later piloted herself, flying above the shoreline of Lake Michigan.
> (She had to secure special permission from the Federal Aviation
> Administration to fly the plane.)
>
> She built the plane, she said, after a teacher from the Illinois
> Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora (where she attended high
> school), upon hearing she had flown a plane, replied: "That's nice,
> but what have you done lately?"
>
> "That's become my mantra ever since," Pasterski says. "That's nice,
> but what have you done lately?"
>
> These days, achievements like speaking at the same event as former
> Secretary of State Colin Powell or researching spaceflight at NASA
> come up almost as an afterthought. Her website includes a long roster
> of her accomplishments. The down-to-earth Pasterski, a
> first-generation Cuban-American, talked to us about successes,
> setbacks ... and chocolate. Following is an edited transcript.

See:
> http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2015/08/30/lifestyle/technology/901866.txt



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Sky's not the limit for physics whiz Sabrina Pasterski Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 17:02 -0500
  Re: Sky's not the limit for physics whiz Sabrina Pasterski "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 15:06 -0700
    Re: Sky's not the limit for physics whiz Sabrina Pasterski "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2015-08-31 20:20 -0700
      Re: Sky's not the limit for physics whiz Sabrina Pasterski HVAC <Mr.HVAC@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 13:18 -0400
        Re: Sky's not the limit for physics whiz Sabrina Pasterski "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2015-09-01 12:22 -0700
      Re: Sky's not the limit for physics whiz Sabrina Pasterski "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2015-09-02 09:51 -0700

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