50th Special: Call Your Mom
PART 2: We've released 50 episodes and we don't want to be strangers! Our team has expanded so much over the past year and we think it's time to share who WE are as humans behind the curtain of the podcast. There's no time for small talk - time to jump right in and get DEEP. Leo (host), Jules (host), and Lucille (editor) will be playing a version of We're Not Really Strangers and sharing some exciting Humans of Minerva updates!
24 Helmi 202327min
50th Special: Meet The Team - We’re Not Really Strangers
We've released 50 episodes and we don't want to be strangers! Our team has expanded so much over the past year and we think it's time to share who WE are as humans behind the curtain of the podcast. There's no time for small talk - time to jump right in and get DEEP. We'll be playing a version of We're Not Really Strangers and sharing some exciting Humans of Minerva updates!
20 Helmi 202329min
Enes Akyuz: Oscillating in a Pendulum
Enes (M26) is a wanna-be thinker who cannot decide between CS, acting, philosophy or music. Trying to pass time by being a contrarian and arguing with passion. Despite having a broken spine and experiencing the back pain of an 80-year-old, he is still as adventurous as ever.
17 Helmi 202335min
Liberty Pim: Baby Steps
From the tender age of 10, Liberty was empowered to make big life decisions. As a kid, (and then at Minerva), she moved countries and schools frequently. Now as a graduate, she's digesting the impact of impermanence, and the paradox of choice, as well as nervously finding her feet in a new career.
13 Helmi 202335min
L Xia: Just Call Me L
L (M22) spent her childhood hoping for a visit from a Camp Half-Blood satyr but eventually grew tired of waiting. When not working or writing, she climbs mountains, tries new things, and (inevitably) gets lost. Her time at Minerva taught her that failure is a side effect of living.
6 Helmi 202328min
Nikesh Shrestha: It's All Going To Work Out
Nikesh (M20) is a software engineer at an SF-based fintech company. He grew up in three different cities in Nepal before coming to Minerva. He recently started living a nomadic life, hopping between cities around the U.S. He enjoys watching/playing football, programming, solving puzzles, riding motorbikes, cooking and hiking.
31 Tammi 202333min
Jon Wilkins: Title TK
Jon Wilkins is a theoretical evolutionary biologist and poet. After years of being buffeted around the intellectual ocean, he has washed up on the welcoming shores of Minerva, where he spends his time assembling metaphorical radios out of even metaphoricaler coconuts.
27 Tammi 202324min
Pelle Van Dam: Nature Teaches
After the first semester of his second year in Seoul, Pelle (M25!) decided to take a gap year. The former M24 is currently volunteering for the climate justice movement - back home in the Netherlands. Pelle loves to share his enthusiasm about trees and mushrooms with high school students whom he teaches about biology and sustainability.
24 Tammi 202328min
