The After School Podcast

We talk about growing up in Exeter, the challenges of adjusting to PEA, Lars' interest in food, nature, reading, and more!

Showly Nicholson (Class of 2012) is a student at Harvard Medical School. We talked about medicine, basketball, homelessness, and race.

Zach Zelner is a serial entrepeneur who dropped out of college to found a cookie delivery company, and has since founded several 7-figure companies including PupSocks which did $8MM in its first 30 days. He tells great stories from his entrepreneurial ventures and opens up about his motivations and drive to succeed.

Ravi Bajaj is a mathematician who studied Theoretical Mathematics at MIT and went on to pursue a PhD in Mathematics at UCLA, but left to pursue medicine. He won the USA Junior Math Olympiad in 2010 while he was at Exeter. We discuss the philosophy of math and Ravi's interests in the mathematics of life.

Jason Kang, class of 2012, is the CEO and co-founder of Kinnos, a company formed to improve disinfection in the fight against Ebola in West Africa. He studied Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University as an Egleston Scholar and graduated Tau Beta Pi. Jason has previously conducted research at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University, worked on automating life sciences research at Transcriptic, and served as the VP of Engineering at Jibon Health Technologies, where he brought a medical device to clinical trials in Bangladesh. For his work in global health, Jason has served as a two-time U.S. Delegate at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation Fellow, Kairos Society Fellow, and AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador. Jason is also on the Board of Columbia Engineering Young Alumni.

Sophie Haigney, class of 2012, is a freelance critic and reporter. She writes about visual art, books, technology, and other things. She writes frequently for The New York Times, and has also contributed to The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Economist, The Atlantic, Slate, The Nation, The Boston Globe, Art in America, The Financial Times, The Baffler, and many other publications. She is currently pursuing an MPhil in American Literature at the University of Cambridge, where her dissertation focuses on interior space and privacy in Edith Wharton's fiction. She lives in London.

Brian Kim, class of 2012, is a student at Yale Law School, where he is an editor of the Yale Law Journal and Yale Journal of International Law and on the board of the Paul Tsai China Center and Yale Law & Business Society. He earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Prior to law school, he received a Master's in China Studies from Peking University where he studied as a Yenching Scholar. He has previously interned with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), State Department's Japan Desk, and Choson Exchange in Singapore, working on policy challenges involving China, Japan, and the Koreas.

This podcast will be about connecting with our classmates. I'm excited to share these conversations with you.