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From Conner 2

Clara Stefanov-Wagner

Contents 1 Stats 2 Conner 2 Trivia 3 Bio 3.1 Other Facts 4 Quotes

Stats

• Room - 213F
• Height - 1.72m (~5' 7")
• Weight - 9 1/2 stones (~61kg) (~135 lbs)
• Purity Score - that's my business
• Graduation Year - 2010
• Major - 2
• Strengths - decisiveness, persistence, spontaneous transposition of multiple clefs, multiple bi-phasic sleep patterns
• Weaknesses - 5.12, extracurricular over-commitment
• Nicknames - Clara Barton

Conner 2 Trivia

Unit 

Not assigned yet

Video Game Persona 

Clara's video game persona is Bulbasaur, from the Pokemon Series.

Secret Santa Poem 

(2006)

Playing her viola oh so true,

she sails the ocean blue

Reading about Mr. Darcy too

while doing 8.02.

(2007)

There once was a girl from Conner 2

Who refused to eat things that say "moo"

She reads Jane Austen

Saves lives in Boston

And to cheese she would say "no thank you"

(2009)

Last year she spent some time across the pond,

Doing study-abroad for CME.

We sure missed her a lot while she was gone,

'cause she makes one hell of an EMT.

She's very kindly and will let you borrow

Cooking utensils and also supplies.

But if you don't return them tomorrow

She might hunt you down and gouge out your eyes!

If you don't have it yet, well here's a big clue:

She would only cook vegan for you!

Bio

I was born in Boston, in a hospital which still exists, and which I now think of as the best place for bringing badly damaged BU students in an ambulance. I have spent my entire life living in the delightful minor city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a traumatic relocation about seven blocks down the street at the age of 12. Prior to the age of 20, my longest stay outside the city limits was the eight weeks in summer 2006 when I lived and worked in a remote little village in upstate New York called St. Hubert's, visible on a map as a little church icon next to the miniscule town of Keene Valley. My new home-away-from-Cambridge is in Cambridge. Cambridge, England, that is.

I have one sibling, an older brother, who I've been chasing since I was born and will never actually surpass (let's hope). We attended the same elementary school, an awesome hippy training ground called King Open, survived the same public high school, which goes by the deceptively grandiose name of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and even managed to end up at the same college, living in the same dorm. Seriously, I still get his mail. But aside from our academic careers, a similar tilt of the eyebrow and some shared genetic material, we're really quite different people. Most of the time. When we're not building robots or lego monsters together.

My mother's great hobby is the study of period clothing, ie what people were wearing a few hundred years ago. Thus I spent many childhood hours perusing old books, sewing clothes for school or dance occasions, and then doing the same thing over again for my American Girl doll, upon whom I bestowed the extraordinarily imaginative name Dolly. I was a whiz at cross stitch by age six, could sew my own clothes (by hand) by age eight, and finally learned how to use a sewing machine around age ten. One of the great loves of my life is a 1930s Singer sewing machine with whom I spent many happy hours in the summer of 2006. That beast is so old it doesn't even go backwards--zig-zag would be unthinkable--but it is beautiful in a way that modern computerized gadgets never are.

Here at MIT, I've continued my unfortunate habit of getting involved in far too many activities. I'm a member of MIT-EMS, the student-run volunteer ambulance service. I'm also on the varsity Sailing team, play viola, and try to find time to mentor my high-school robotics team. And when I list my activities like this, I always have the creeping feeling I'm leaving something out.

Other Facts

Distance to home of nearest relative

2.1 km (~1.3 miles)

Radius encompassing educational institutions attended since the age of four years

1.4 km (~.9 miles)

Instruments played, in decreasing order of competence

viola, violin, 'cello, alto recorder, string bass, acoustic guitar, keyboard

Notable on Conner 2

the floor vegan, FGS ambassador to the rest of the world, AppleBake apple crisp champion 2006, one of the 2010 twin girls,

Quotes

"It's a hyperciliated macrobacterium!"

"My genes won't make it to the next generation by letting my best friend sleep with that hot guy."
(while watching Emma, taking on the character of Emma to explain female cattiness)

"So go throw rocks at squirrels"
(to Sung, who was complaining she felt like a cranky three-year-old)