Grand Challenges Impact Lab


March 4, 2024

The Blessing of Struggles

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I am told that now is the time to reflect on my experience in Bangalore. And I did set aside time to do that yesterday, but I got sidetracked. After a morning of work and some goofing around, I attended my most anticipated activity yet in Bangalore: pants tailoring. After 20 minutes of indecisiveness on…


March 2, 2024

Last BLORE Bucket List

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Last week while stuck in the back of a stuffy Uber with Taekyung on the way to the Hasiru Dala office, I began to craft my “Last Bangalore Bucket List”; for those of you who don’t know, I take bucket lists very seriously, a tradition I started during lockdown when me and my friends’ bucket…


9/10ths of the way

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Entering the final week of the GCIL program, my days now mostly consist of sitting in the third floor conference room working on my group’s final project. Putting in long, sometimes tedious, hours with the rest of my Sensing Local group, I find myself missing any day where we got to go outside. However, I…


March 1, 2024

Mama Always Said

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It’s the little treats these days, the blueberry slurpee, the supple artificial taste of a Redbull as it hits your lips and send shivers down your spine, the subtle soft tones of the Cranberry’s Linger as you do a little dance in the conference room as you struggle to figure out what to write for…


A New Pair of Glasses

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As I begin to write this blog post on another late night while simultaneously helping Arielle and Casera create our prototype to present tomorrow morning, I am finding myself at a loss for words. Yesterday Casera read her blog post describing our same recent experiences with similar perspectives as I. This will also be my…



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