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On the outside, we are the many faces of Georgetown. This comes at a time in which connection through our digital spaces has never been so important.

“What’s your story?”

Inspired by Humans of New York, the official Humans of Georgetown page aspires to elevate and share perspectives from Georgetown’s students, faculty, staff, and community members. Humans of Georgetown has varied in activity in the last 7 or so years, but one thing has remained constant in our posts: a commitment to showcase a diverse and meaningful set of stories and perspect

ives among the Georgetown community. Behind the scenes, we are a small group of Georgetown students breathing life back into what we believe to be a wonderful and important archive of Georgetown’s mosaic of backgrounds. Please help us highlight the humans that make Georgetown what it is! Share your story, and nominate someone else to share theirs. Submission/Nomination Form: https://forms.gle/7UoCcnEZiTYPsGW77

05/09/2022

"My dad is originally from South Africa. Rugby is like the religion down there. It's one of the main sports they do. They love it, everyone grows up playing it. So when I was born here, he shared that love and passion with me. I started playing when I was around six or seven. I've been watching my whole life. Even before Georgetown, you know, I have a lot of great memories with my dad watching rugby, even just driving to games together, or driving to practices. He was my coach growing up, so there are a lot of great memories there as well. It's been a very fulfilling experience.

I think one of the main misconceptions of rugby players is that we're a bunch of meatheads who just like to hit people. You know, it's not true. Some of the most intelligent conversations I've had with people at Georgetown are our guys on the rugby team. All of them are incredibly passionate about what they do and what they study, all the current events. There's quite a diversity of opinion on the team as well, which I really appreciate. People think rugby is not a sport for everyone. I've never found that to be the case. There's a place on the field for every person, no matter who they are, what they look like, how big they are, small they are. There's this misconception that rugby players have to be big and strong, and things like that. But it really isn't true. We're all different sizes on the team. It's a very inclusive environment. I think most people who come out to try find that that is the case.”

- Mark Kearney (SFS '23) he/him

03/28/2022

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03/24/2022

“I grew up in the Bay Area, 20 minutes outside of San Francisco and nature was a really big part of my childhood. I remember very fondly a trail near our house that was by this beautiful water reservoir and my family and me, every day after dinner, would just walk there, digest, and just enjoy the beautiful sunset on the water, surrounded by trees and plants. And I think growing up in that kind of environment really makes you appreciate the connection that humans have with nature and plants and how we've really like been damaging that relationship and that our connection to the natural world. Every time I go home, I go to this place called Muir Woods, which is this giant redwood preserve north of the city, and I just like to walk underneath these giant 300-foot tall redwoods and stare out at the canopy of branches. I just imagine that the human world doesn't exist, just surrounded in this cathedral of trees.”

“I started getting into plants because I really missed having plants around me, my family loves plants. We always would have a lot of flowers, a lot of big leafy plants and shrubs in our house. I wanted to make a space for myself that was equally as comfortable here in DC. So I started just collecting plants I thought looked nice. Sometimes I would even go to like pick flowers. But what I settled on was just on plants that made me happy, that make me feel comfortable. And yeah, watering plants is kind of like having a pet in many ways. Much simpler. But it gives you a sense of structure when you have to take care of a lot of plants and make sure that they're surviving, and also brings you joy in the process and just is really beautiful.”
– Darren Jian (COL ‘22) he/him

03/20/2022

“I'm doing a radio show with one of my best friends, Joe Stewart. We wanted to make it a very Georgetown-based show, and we wanted to have a lot of fun together. So we decided to make it a Booey’s-themed show – like an ode to Booeymonger and an ode to George Clinton and Funkadelic. ‘Mommy, What's A Booeymonger?’ was born. Our theme is basically coming up every week with a different occasion that we would be going to Booey’s and make a playlist for it. Our first show was on a beautiful fall day, and we were like, ‘Okay, it's gonna be fall. It's gonna be 5 pm. We're gonna get pitchers of Shock Top. Everything's orange. We're wearing sweaters. What's the vibe? What songs do we play for that specifically?’ And one week, we were going to New York to perform at NYU with our sketch comedy team. We were like, ‘What if Booey’s was a CSJ van that was on its way to New York?’”

— Eloise Owen (COL ‘22) she/her

02/28/2022

“I never wanted to start my own company. I actually was very very against the idea of starting my own company because I'd heard how tough it was and it was not something that I really felt like I wanted or needed to do. But I had this idea when I was at dinner with my friends in Georgetown and we were actually at a restaurant on Prospect Street and I found that the food was so bad, but the conversation that we were having was so good. I kind of sat back and I saw how different people interacted with each other - one guy would be leading the conversation, another guy would kind of bounce off with their jokes, one girl was sharing stories about her life. And there was so much emotion and so much exchange of ideas that was happening across this dinner table. And I thought to myself, hey, there's no way of capturing this moment in a way that's authentic, in a way that's reflective of what actually happened, and in a way that's cool and interesting. And once I had that idea and I saw this problem, it was something that I was just so captured by and I really gravitated towards. I just figured that the most logical vehicle to solve this problem would be a company and that's why I started Aura.

So Aura as a company hopes to allow people to take moments and experience them in ways that they have never done before. We essentially have developed voice recognition and emotion recognition technology where you can take a moment like a dinner that me and you go to, and our algorithms can understand when each person is speaking and track their emotions over time. We take all that data and we turn it into dynamic art. We abstract an experience that you've had in a way that no one has really seen before. Usually people think about capturing moments as, you know, photos, as videos, as these kinds of visual memories, but in reality that doesn't reflect what has gone on in that moment and it doesn't really encapsulate the emotional depth of the experience that you embarked on. And so this way, we're kind of giving people a completely different way of looking at interactions and experiences that they have. To view moments through a new lens.”

- Sid Sundaram (SFS ‘22) he/him

02/15/2022

“What the driving force for me to go on Jeopardy! was when in my sophomore year of high school, my brother actually went on regular Jeopardy!. I’m not the first person in my family to go on Jeopardy!, which is kind of a dubious honor.

I didn't want to psych myself out about it. So I kind of went in with as little expectations as possible. I talked to my brother for some advice, but otherwise, I just went in and just tried to ride out the wave. Jeopardy! is a short show. When you watch it, it’s only 30 minutes. But when you're up there, it feels like five seconds. Everything goes by so quick, every question is just so rapid fire. It was a blur of a weekend.

If we’re talking about the kind of people who participate in the Jeopardy! national college championship, it is a group of people, nerdy in their own unique way. So I think everyone has a commonality in that sense.

You want to tell people and let your friends know, but there's only so many people you can really tell. I didn’t tell anyone about Jeopardy! except for my immediate family and my girlfriend. They don't even know the results because I can't share them. I'm glad now that I can let everyone know and maybe get a little support and have friends watch the show. People, tune in on February 16, Wednesday 8 PM.”

— Nam Vu (COL ‘22) he/him

02/15/2022

"Did you do anything for Valentine's Day?"

 “My friends and I made dumplings. It's just sort of something we did when we first started hanging out. It was a crazy time but so much fun.

One of my friends had a Covid exposure so she couldn't make it. But it all worked out in the end. We FaceTimed her in while we were folding the pork and veggie dumplings. They were so good."

- Lincoln Le (COL '24) he/him

02/13/2022

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02/11/2022

“I played my first game of Wordle two weeks ago. All my friends are intense about word games, and so I heard about Wordle from them. But also, walking around campus, it seemed like everyone was asking, “Did you get the Wordle today?”

For my first game, I had no clue what I was doing. Absolutely no clue. I wasn’t even close to the word, probably because I was confused about what the rules were exactly. I actually found out that I was playing it completely wrong through a Wordle group chat my friends made, where everyone sends their results of the day. I texted my emoji results and everyone was like, “Judy, that’s simply not possible.” So I literally had to YouTube "How to play Wordle.”

Since then I’ve gotten a little addicted to the game. I accidentally spoiled the word one time and I didn’t understand why my friends were so upset but now if that happened to me, I’d definitely get annoyed. I don’t know how long I’ll be playing this game for but watch me trying to figure out the Wordle during midterm season."

– Judy Kim (COL ‘23) she/he

12/06/2021

How did the two of you meet?

“I did my freshman year online and found FOCI because somebody from my high school told me to do it and I was like, ‘Okay, this seems cool.’ It seemed like a great way to move in early and get to know people at the start of a normal year. I still made a lot of online friendships last year, but I met new friends, like Tessa, through FOCI. The program also connected me to a lot of different programs in D.C. to volunteer with, like the Prisons and Justice Initiaitive.”

- Noah Aire (COL ‘24) he/him 

“I made really good friends during FOCI, too -- all my best friends now are still FOCIans. I feel that if I hadn't had that, transitioning from FOCI to NSO would have been really hard because I felt like there was no one else like me. During NSO, there were no other q***r or non-binary people in my group. So I feel like I was able to kind of have that environment in FOCI and get to know people who I felt I identified with in that way, which is really cool.”

- Tessa Smiley (COL ‘25) they/them

12/01/2021

“I grew up in Kentucky. So I would never hear like Erykah Badu or like D'Angelo anywhere else except for at home. I'm hearing country everywhere else. I've been doing concert band, marching band, and whatever growing up, so when I was able to make music with my friends, I think the drums and the patterns and the layers that I learned over the years being in concert band and drumline kind of mix with like, the bass and the melodies and grooves of like Erykah Badu, and like Outkast and I didn't really figure that out that's what was happening until these past like two months.

I sit with music a lot. I sit with my songs and projects a lot. It took a year to make this album that was like nine songs, right? And I guess in this first half of the year, I kind of had a picture in mind of what I wanted it to sound like. I was envisioning a listener listening to it on the couch smoking. And towards the end, I was like, You know what, if I want to be able to go on as an artist, I'm gonna have to perform, right? ‘Cause I have all this energy. I have this stage presence, and I realized that I also want to be able to like, have people mosh to my stuff. I just love that. So I was like, You know what? Let's see if we can do both. So I thought about stuff like: let's put 808s here, let's not make this bridge here and put it later because it's gonna make energy come at this later point. I was never one to think so deeply about how music does things until I made Dusty Orange.”

- Malachi Hughlander Quarles (COL ‘24) he/him

11/15/2021

“I started [performing] in high school. I did the talent shows in high school with a Drake medley I put it together on GarageBand and people really liked it. So then I was like, Okay, let me come back and do a Nicki Minaj medley, and then people liked it. Then I was like, Okay, let me start doing my own music and performing that. And so it just kind of like, you know, evolved out of that but that's how I got my start with performing and making music.

What made me the happiest about being Mr. Georgetown is that a lot of people of color came up to me and was like, it's good to see a person of color representing and, you know, and having the title of Mr. Georgetown, or even just representing the face of anything at Georgetown, and so that’s really what touched my heart the most. And as a POC at Georgetown, it's easy to feel invisible and like you're the only person so it really felt good to have so many people of color come up to me and congratulate me for that.”

- Jalen Arthur (MSB ‘22) he/him

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