Here's my top 12 things I am grateful for from 2016 in chronological order:
January 2016
Thank you East-West Center for the Community Building Institute and allowing me to be a Student Affiliate in your Educational program.
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February 2016
Thank you Hawaii Water and Environmental/American Water Works Association for acknowledging my scholarly work.
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March 2016
Thank you Dr. Bateni for allowing me to give my first seminar ever for CEE 691.
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April 2016
Thank you EWC for the funding to allow me to present my PhD work in Australia! My first international conference in my PhD!
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May 2016
Thank you Brown University for the opportunity to attend your Young Scholar's Conference on "Thriving in the Academy: preparing for success in the tenure track." Read more here.
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June 2016
Thank you for the summer solstice and the moon.
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July 2016
Thank you College of Engineering for the opportunity to give my talk on scholarship writing to the High School Intern Program. Read more about scholarship writing here.
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August 2016
Mahalo a nui loa e kuu ohana PILOT! Thanks heaps my PILOT Ohana! I am honored to call you my family. Read more about this amazing indigenous leadership training program for Pacific Islanders here.
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September 2016
Thank you Future Leaders of the Pacific for allowing me to be in your program. Late post 2 coming soon. Stay tuned.
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October 2016
Thank you College of Engineering for allowing me and Micah to rep you folks on Kauai.
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November 2016
Fa'afetai Samoa #alamai16 for letting us to share our engineering work with your Rising Pasifika youth.
Thank you AISES for letting me present my PhD work for the first time at a USA conference! |
December 2016
Thank you UH Admissions for allowing to promote what Teaching Experience is like to our next UHM warriors!
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Hello 2017!
My motto for 2017 is DIP and it is easy way to remember my evolutions.
My evolutions = f(Declutter (Immerse (Purposeful))).
Goal for this space:
1) I hope to publish a blog post a month. Stay tuned!
All the best on this new year to you. In January 2018, I hope to reflect back on this post and see if I met my goals.