Comments on: Win FREE Tickets to Party Like It's Shavuot at the Cal Academy of Sciences http://www.missionmission.org/2010/05/07/shavout-cal-academy-contest/ Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Ian in SF http://www.missionmission.org/2010/05/07/shavout-cal-academy-contest/#comment-18813 Ian in SF Fri, 14 May 2010 17:25:24 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=13925#comment-18813 Hey, missed the update about the video entries. Can you remove my previous entry?

Thanks,
Ian

]]> By: Ian in SF http://www.missionmission.org/2010/05/07/shavout-cal-academy-contest/#comment-18812 Ian in SF Thu, 13 May 2010 19:32:23 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=13925#comment-18812 In 2006 science changed the course of my life. I was a junior at UC Santa Cruz studying biology and was very interested in rainforests. However, my classes didn’t discuss them and I didn’t think it would be possible to study them professionally. I then got an offer to compare the rainforests of my two favorite islands, Borneo and New Guinea, for a PhD project. For the first time it seemed possible to make a career out of studying rainforests!

For the past four years since then I’ve been preparing to start my PhD and the project. In the spring of 2007 I studied abroad in Costa Rica and a month after I got back went to Borneo on a Harvard field course. After graduating from UC Santa Cruz I traveled through Indonesia for nine months and directed a research project in Indonesian Borneo. When I got back to my hometown of San Francisco I applied to Oxford, was accepted, and will start my PhD project there in October! While I’m only 23, I can say that thanks to science I now plan on devoting the rest of my life to the study and preservation of the world’s rainforests.

]]> By: Andrew Sarkarati http://www.missionmission.org/2010/05/07/shavout-cal-academy-contest/#comment-18811 Andrew Sarkarati Mon, 10 May 2010 19:25:37 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=13925#comment-18811 yes sir! whatever you can fit (under 200 words)!

]]> By: Ian in SF http://www.missionmission.org/2010/05/07/shavout-cal-academy-contest/#comment-18810 Ian in SF Mon, 10 May 2010 19:16:54 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=13925#comment-18810 How should the essays be submitted? Through this comments box?

Thanks,
Ian

]]> By: Andrew Sarkarati http://www.missionmission.org/2010/05/07/shavout-cal-academy-contest/#comment-18809 Andrew Sarkarati Mon, 10 May 2010 05:06:27 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=13925#comment-18809 good save!

]]> By: dave http://www.missionmission.org/2010/05/07/shavout-cal-academy-contest/#comment-18808 dave Sun, 09 May 2010 07:29:54 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=13925#comment-18808 Pretty sure it’s spelled shavuot, for the record.

]]> By: Andrew Sarkarati http://www.missionmission.org/2010/05/07/shavout-cal-academy-contest/#comment-18807 Andrew Sarkarati Sat, 08 May 2010 18:27:20 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=13925#comment-18807 i think they’re letting the gentiles through the temple doors for this one, kat

]]> By: sarah http://www.missionmission.org/2010/05/07/shavout-cal-academy-contest/#comment-18806 sarah Sat, 08 May 2010 04:54:17 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=13925#comment-18806 This event, I can assure you, will be very non Jew friendly. I’ve been in the past. It’s awesome.

]]> By: Kat http://www.missionmission.org/2010/05/07/shavout-cal-academy-contest/#comment-18805 Kat Sat, 08 May 2010 00:01:48 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=13925#comment-18805 Andrew, I love Gary Shteyngart! But I’m not a jew so don’t feel comfortable entering this! Plz advise.

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