User:Cml53

My Name

Pretty straight forward, my name is Charlotte Lee. Emphasis on the Char, Char as in shar, lotte as in lit, Lee as in...well lee. I generally go by Charlotte, but Char is good too. I also go by Charizard in some circles.

A General About Me

I'm a freshman at Pratt, studying BME on a pre-med track. Original, I know. I'm from West Allenhurst, a tiny town on the Jersey Shore. I live in Wilson, and I'm in the Global Health Focus.

Grand Challenges for Engineering

Just after one global disease class, it has become exceedingly clear how important clean water truly is. Diarrhoeal disease is fifth on the list of WHO's top 10 causes of death worldwide, responsible for 2,460,000 deaths globally in 2008. Dr. Broverman told us a rather morbid joke that even if there was a single pill to cure AIDS that we could get to every person who needed it, the water used to swallow the pill would kill a huge percentage of that population. Read more about the challenges surrounding clean water: Provide access to clean water, National Academy of Engineering, updated 3 August 2011, accessed 30 August 2011 (Grand Challenge)

Favorites

Some favorite books:

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
• ALL the Harry Potters (but specifically the third and sixth)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Some favorite movies:

• Garden State
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Casablanca
• Water for Elephants

Some favorite musicians:

• Brand New
• Taylor Swift (the only country ish music I listen to)
• Weezer
• The Killers
• The Kooks
• Lilly Allen

Contact Info

email: charlotte.lee@duke.edu or charlotte.m.lee@gmail.com