Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

23 Feb 2002, 10:29 a.m.

Back when I was in high school and Nandini was…

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2002 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

Back when I was in high school and Nandini was in college, she called me for ideas sometimes. Once she had to design a simple experiment for a psych class just to show that she understood the scientific method. We settled on testing the hypothesis that people actually like the way they look, as George Zimmerman guarantees (in telegram form?), wearing clothes from the Men's Wearhouse.