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Jun 28, 2017 Conversation Student Life EXPLO Pre-College + Career

Meet Laura from Connecticut

Rising sophomore Laura is a logic and physics enthusiast who uses poetry to make meaning of life's more ambiguous moments.

Jill Luoma-Overstreet

Rising junior Laura is a logic and physics enthusiast who uses poetry to make meaning of life's more ambiguous moments. 


I didn’t realize that I’d like physics as much as I do. I guess it shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise — my dad’s told me a lot about that world. He’s specifically an artificial intelligence scientist, but knows all about the other scientific fields since he was going to be a doctor.   

My love for physics definitely developed in ninth grade. I had a physics teacher who was always incredibly enthusiastic and energetic. She was also very organized, which helped me learn. I have a very systematic way of thinking and I like to assign a meaning to everything. It’s how I want to see the world. I want to know that all things around me have an explanation behind them.

I do write poetry. That’s an area of my personality where I find myself expressing more, rather than taking a mathematical approach to understanding. I never rhyme; I use poetry to try to find explanations for things that don’t have a mathematical explanation behind them. It’s almost like my own personal stream-of-consciousness that I use to grasp onto more ambiguous concepts.

Jill Luoma-Overstreet