At My Parents’ Anniversary Party, One Insult—and One Letter—Changed Everything

the MIT faculty members stood up and said, “This is the kind of thinking we need in environmental engineering. You’re not just solving a technical problem. You’re solving a human problem.”

Emma called me that night and cried. Happy tears this time.

“He said I was solving a human problem, Mom,” she said, her voice catching. “Not just a technical one. continue reading …