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Ethan Muehlstein: 2016 Best and Brightest by: Jeff Schmitt on December 07, 2015 | 0 Comments Comments 294 Views December 7, 2015Ethan MuehlsteinUniversity of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of BusinessHometown: Kerrville, TXHigh School: Our Lady of the Hills Regional Catholic High SchoolMajor: Information Technology Management and Political Science (Double major)Favorite Business Courses: Application Development, Quantitative Decision Modeling, Systems Analysis and DesignExtracurricular Activities/Leadership Roles:Peer Advocate, VOICE Board, Center for Social Concerns, Univ. of Notre DameCo-President, Texas Club, University of Notre DameTeaching Assistant, Mendoza College of Business, Univ. of Notre DameSustainability Intern, Office of Sustainability, University of Notre DameStudent Employee, Dean’s Office, School of Architecture, Univ. of Notre DameClass of 2016 Council, Student Government, University of Notre DameCampus Ministry Representative, Student Government, Universit y of Notre DameFreshman Retreat Leader and Mentor, Campus Ministry, Univ. of Notre DameSpring 2015 Semester abroad in Dakar, SenegalSummer 2013 Summer abroad in Wales, United KingdomCommunity Work/Service:CSC programs in Salem, West Virginia; Austin, Texas; Green River, UtahMichiana Ronald McDonald House, South Bend, IN, 2013-presentCommunications Assistant, Bà ©guà © Coco, Dakar, Senegal, 2015Sisters of St. Francis Orphanage in Dakar, Senegal, 2015Catholic Charities of San Antonio Refugee Resettlement Department, 2014Notre Dame Urban Plunge with Mobile Loaves and Fishes in Austin, TX, 2014Notre Dame Appalachia Seminar in Salem, West Virginia, Spring Break 2013Awards/Honors:2015 Notre Dame Digital Badge, Silver ePortfolio Excellence Award, Best Junior2015 National Political Science Honor Society, Notre Dame chapter2015 Boren Scholarship, Alternate, Dakar, Senegal2014 Andrews Scholar: Scholarship for students who are engaged in service-learning projects2014 College Delegate, Cathol ic Social Ministry Gathering (Washington, D.C.)2013 US-UK Fulbright Summer Institute Participant in Wales, UK2012 Irene S. Wischer Scholarship2012 Elks Most Valuable Student Scholarship2012 Texas Boys State, American Legion Scholarship2012 Lowe’s ScholarshipWhere have you interned during your college career? Sophomore Summer: Green River Positive Action Community Team (PACT) Nonprofit, Green River, UT, Summer Intern and CounselorJunior Summer: Camp Lonehollow, Vanderpool, TX, Digital Marketing and Photography InternDescribe your dream Job: I hope to be the next Steve Jobs in the CleanTech industry. Through innovation, I hope to meet the triple bottom line that helps consumers do more with less. I believe that social entrepreneurship and sustainable technology is the future of businesses, and I hope to be at the forefront.What did you enjoy most about majoring in a business-related field?   Because I am majoring in a business-related field, I have been afforded many opportun ities I would not have been granted otherwise.   I enjoy the practice experiences, preparing me to work in a variety of settings. I enjoy the leadership development and personal discovery. I enjoy the comprehensive overview of various business disciplines. I enjoy the relationships I have made with executives, entrepreneurs, professors, and fellow students, as these relationships have helped me to refine my passions and interests.Where would you like to work after graduation?  Google, gTech Rotation ProgramWhat are your long-term professional goals? My dream is to do well enough professionally, so I can give back socially through service and provide as good of a life as I have had (or better) for my future children. To achieve this goal, I hope to always continue to learn (something new, something interesting, every day). Because risks offer the opportunity for reward, I hope to take risks in my career. Most importantly, I hope to always stay grounded. Therefore, my professional decisions will always be centered in my faith, so I will always consider the concerns of all stakeholders, the environment, and potential implications. Business has the power to do good, and I hope to use the power of business to make this world a better place.â€Å"I knew I wanted to major in business when†¦I took a class on information security technology, and I realized that business technology has the power to do more than create system efficiencies. I have always been a people person, and business allows me to follow my passion to connect with others, while interacting and engaging with new technologies and systems. Business technology provides protection and facilitates connections.†Ã¢â‚¬Å"If I didn’t major in business, I would be†¦a computer science major with a minor in sustainability (but I would probably end up earning a MBA eventually).†What was the happiest moment of your life? During my internship with Green River PACT, I was able to trave l to some of the national parks in the surrounding area. I absolutely love hiking and traveling, so seeing these national parks for the first time was incredible! As the sun set over Goblin Valley in Utah, and dusk became dark, I can remember the conversations I had with my friends sitting atop the highest plateau in the park. The beauty (of nature, in the conversations, with my friends) that surrounded me at that moment was what I could define as the happiest moment of my life. Needless to say, Utah has become my second favorite state (after Texas, of course).Which academic or personal achievement are you most proud of? The achievements I am most proud of are never individual projects or achievements. I am most proud of the work I complete through collaboration. Therefore, I am most proud of my work as a Communications Assistant with Bà ©guà © Coco during my study abroad experience in Senegal. Because I wanted to gain international business experience, I reached out to an online company focusing on sustainability while I was in Dakar. While collaborating with other employees and community organizations, I successfully created a marketing campaign for the Indegogo Crowdfunding platform. I consider this experience an achievement because I learned how to conduct business in a global context, I learned French business vocabulary, and I followed my passions, which helped to ensure the success of the crowdfunding campaign.What animal would you choose to represent your professional brand (and why)? I would choose an elephant to represent my professional brand because elephants are my favorite animals. As a child, I became fascinated with elephants because my favorite movie was Dumbo. Additionally, elephants naturally live in some of my favorite regions of the world, and elephants are traditionally characterized as having high levels of intelligence. Elephants demonstrate concern for members of their families, and because my family is incredibly important to me and has supported me in all my endeavors, I would want my brand to illustrate the importance of family.Who would you most want to thank for your success (and why)? Growing up in a family of five children, success was always relative. Who did what first? How can I do that and more? How do I follow in the footsteps, but make my own path? However, my older sister, Katie, has always encouraged me to find my own successes, to follow my passions. I would like to thank her because although we may have encountered many obstacles together, she has never doubted my potential and has always challenged me to follow my dreams and to take risks. I try to imitate her courage and her humility, which I consider my biggest success.Fun fact about yourself: During my junior year in high school, I competed in the national championship for wool judging, where my team won the national championship, and I won the championship as high point individual.Favorite book: There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston and Night by Elie WieselFavorite movie: I can never pick just one movie, as I am a movie buff, and I love pretty much any movie. However, two of my top movie choices currently are The Descendants and No Reservations.Favorite musical performer: James Bay! I love his voice, the beat and pace, and the emotive lyrics in each song.Favorite vacation spot: I love the mountains, so Big Sky, Montana, in any season!What are your hobbies? Hiking/camping, swimming, running, rock climbing, reading, watching movies (especially foreign films), visiting art galleries and museums, having deep intentional conversations with friends, baking, daydreaming, travelingWhat made Ethan such an invaluable addition to the Class of 2016?  Ã¢â‚¬Å"Ethans accomplishments speak for themselveshis academic excellence, including membership on the Deans List; his various honors (such as a scholarship for international study in Senegal; Fulbright Summer Institute in Wales; American Legion Texas state scholarship; etc .); his extracurricular service and leadership (including the Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns VOICE Board; Peer Advocate for Notre Dame FIREstarters; ND Class of 2016 Council member; president of the ND Texas Club; Morrissey Hall Council, In-Hall Commissioner and Historian; etc.); his community service (greater than 5000 hours working with Catholic Charities of San Antonio Refugee Resettlement Department and other Catholic community programs); his work in theological and pastoral ministry through the Campus Ministry Office, taking advantage of many pilgrimage opportunities and retreats both at Notre Dame and nationally, such as SEEK, Poland Pilgrimage, etc.; and, on top of all of this, his work as my former TA and other campus jobs!Rather than going into all of that, I want to write a few words about my experience with Ethan when he was my student and, later, my TA. He stood out in class for his thoughtful engagement in class, his hard work on both individually and in group as signments, his excellent performance on exams and other classwork, and his conscientious and friendly personality. As a result of this combination of excellent student traits, I asked him to be my TA; and he remains one of the best TAs Ive ever had the pleasure of working with.The more I worked with Ethan, the more I appreciated his strong faith, his stellar work ethic, and his conscientiousness as a scholar and a TA. He is thoughtful, careful, and invariably quick with a friendly smile; and though he does not speak constantly about his strong faith, its importance in his life is abundantly evident in his actions, attitudes, and extracurricular activities. It was a great loss to me when Ethan left campus to study abroad in Senegal; but I know that he grew academically and spiritually in that program, as well as, I am sure, left an indelible mark on that and the myriad other programs with which he has been involved in the year since I worked with him.Ethan is an intelligent, committe d, service-oriented, conscientious, wonderful student, who has already contributed so much to the school I once heard him refer to as my beloved university and the broader communitylocally, nationally, and even internationally. He loves Our Ladys University; and Notre Dame loves him.†Marie Halvorsen-Ganepola Management Professor University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business Page 1 of 11

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How keen the pang,how sad the thought,   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   How oft to quiet remembrance brought,   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   When friend from friend is forcd to part   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   When distance separates the heart. In the year 1827, he came to Calcutta and the young man of 17 saw his first production through the press, and almost immediately found himself famous. Indigo-planting and Bhaugalpore became things of the past. Henry Derozio as Assistant editor of The India Gazette, Editor of The Calcutta Magazine,The Indian Magazine, The Bengal Annual and The Kaleidoscope. At the age of 18, Derozio published a volume of poems and obtained a teachership at the Hindu College. In March 1828, Derozio was appointed Master of English Literature and History in the second and third classes of the Hindoo College. No teacher ever taught with greater zeal or enthusiasm, at the Hindu College. As Assistant-master in the senior department of the Hindoo College,Derozio adopted teaching as a profession and Literature as a sceptre, to unleash his creativity. He was very successful as a teacher of philosophy, but lost his appointment, though the charges against him, of propagating atheism and encouraging disobedience failed. Still he continued to exercise great influence over his former pupils, many of whom became distinguished men. Derozio contributed to journalism and he established a newspaper, The East Indian. Dr. John Grant,David Hare,Meredith Parker and D. L. Richardson, all men of ability were the close friends of Derozio and admirers of his genius. In 1827 Derozio published several poems,below is a stanza from the poem Ode-From the Persian of Half Queez. Without thy dreams, dear opium,   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Without a single hope I am,   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Spicy scent, delusive joy;   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Chillum hither lao, my boy! In 1828, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio published his second volume, which was a reprint of the first, with some additions, notably the Fakir of Jungheera. This book raised the fame of Derozio as a poet to the highest point which his too brief life permitted him to reach. I Stand Here Ironing EssayIt was a period of anarchy and war in India. The beginning of the century saw the English mere traders struggling for a foothold in India; its closing decades saw them sovereigns of vast territories. Alexander Hamilton, who was in the east from 1688 to 1723, wrote A New Account of the East Indies, but his book, though comprehensive, is rather rambling and commonplace. Between his date and 1780 there are only a few names which call for comment. Pre-eminent among them was that of Robert Orme. Born in India in 1728, he returned to the land of his birth as a â€Å"writer† in 1743, and there, during the course of a successful official career, in which he was closely connected with many of the events afterwards discussed in his books, he gathered the knowledge which enabled him to become one of the greatest of Anglo-Indian historians. 2   His History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan is the prose epic of the early military achievements of our race in India. An indefatigable, rather than a brilliant, writer, Orme remains a mine in which all subsequent historians must quarry. In his Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire, of the Morattoes and of the English concerns in Indostan from the year 1659, the conscientious and unwearied narrator of contemporary events became the industrious investigator of past history, though it is by his first book that Orme’s name chiefly lives. Alexander Dow, who died at Bhagalpur in 1779, not only translated histories from the Persian, but wrote two tragedies, Zingis and Sethona, which were produced at Drury lane. His authorship of these plays, which were oriental in setting, was challenged by Baker in his Biographia Dramatica, â€Å"for he is said by those who know him well to be utterly unqualified for the production of learning or of fancy, either in prose or verse. † Others who may be mentioned are John Zephaniah Holwell, a survivor of the Black Hole, who wrote on historical and other subjects after his retirement in 1760, including a Narrative of the deplorable deaths of the English gentlemen who were suffocated in the Black Hole, which was included in his India Tracts. Charles Hamilton, who wrote a history of those Rohilla Afghans whose expulsion from Rohilcand brought much odium upon Warren Hastings; James Rennell, the father of Indian geography, who wrote after his retirement in 1777; and William Bolts and Henry Verelst, whose quarrels in India resulted in the production of polemical history by them both. 6  Ã‚  The closing years of Warren Hasting’s Indian career saw the real birth of English literature and literary studies in India. Hicky’s Bengal Gazette, the first newspaper of modern India, was founded at Calcutta by James Augustus Hicky in 1780. It was a scurrilous production, but a sign of life. James Forbes left India in 1784, carrying with him the collected materials which he afterwards published as his Oriental Memoirs. The appointment, in 1783, of Sir William Jones as judge of the supreme court was an event of high importance in the history of the relations between east and west, as was also his foundation of the Asiatic society of Bengal. He is remembered primarily as the earliest English Sanskrit scholar; but, in the domain of Anglo-Indian letters, he takes rank not only by his translation of Kalidasa’s Sakuntala, but, also, as the first Anglo-Indian poet. He had written verse before he came to India; while in India, he addressed the gods of Indian mythology in a series of hymns which, if not of the highest order of poetry, are yet aflame with enthusiasm and knowledge. Inferior to Jones as an orientalist, but superior as a poet, was John Leyden, that â€Å"lamp too early quenched,† as Sir Walter Scott put it. He lived in the east from 1803 to 1811, and, though he, too, is remembered chiefly as an orientalist, he is to be noted as the first of that long line of writers who expressed in verse the common feelings of Englishmen in â€Å"the land of regrets. † His poetry is a simple expression of the emotions which all Anglo-Indians experience at some time—pride in the military achievements of our race, loathing at the darker aspects of Indian superstition and the exile’s longing for home. His Ode to an Indian Gold Coin deserves a place in every Anglo-Indian anthology of verse as an expression of this last emotion. 7   Ã‚  The closing years of the eighteenth century, and the first two decades of the nineteenth, were marked by other signs of literary advance. Hugh Boyd, who, by some, was alleged to be Junius, was in India from 1781 to 1794, and made some attempt, in essays on literary and moral subjects in local journals which he conducted, to keep alive the flame of English literary culture in his adopted country. In 1789, the quaint translation into English of Ghulam Hussein Khan’s Siyar-ul-Muta’akhkhirin by the Franco-Turk Raymond, alias Haji Mustapha, was published in Calcutta. The intrinsic interest of this contemporary history of India, combined with the oriental phraseology and the Gallicisms with which the translation abounds, renders Raymond’s book one of the most curious pieces of literature among Anglo-Indian writings. Meanwhile, Henry Thomas Colebrooke made a name for himself as the leading Sanskrit scholar of the day; James Tod was carrying on those researches in Rajputana which he ultimately gave to the world in the classic Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, a work fuller of romance than most epics; Mark Wilks, in the south of India, was both helping to make history and amassing the materials for writing it, which he eventually published as his impartially and critically written Historical Sketches of the South of India. Sir John Malcolm, who, also, took part in many of the events which he described, followed with his Political History of India in 1811, and, subsequently, with his History of Persia, his Central India and other works, including a volume of poems; while Francis Buchanan-Hamilton wrote on scientific and historical subjects, including An Account of the Kingdom of Nipal. As belonging to this period, too, may be mentioned Eliza Fay’s Original Letters rom Calcutta, descriptive of her travels from England to Calcutta, and the anonymous Hartly House, described as a novel, though, in form, a series of letters written by a lady and descriptive of life in Calcutta towards the close of the eighteenth century. Finally, Mary Martha Sherwood, the children’s writer, was in India during this period and her Little Henry and his Bearer was the gift which she gave to Anglo-Indian children in memory of the child she had lost.   Ã‚  The thirty or forty years which preceded the mutiny were f ull of events of the greatest moment for the future of the English language in India. Macaulay was in India from 1834 to 1838, and his minute on education resulted in the definite adoption by lord Bentinck’s government of the English language as the basis of all higher education in India. Ram Mohan Roy, the Bengali reformer, had advocated in English writing this and other reforms, the style of which Jeremy Bentham compared favourably with that of James Mill. David Hare, a Calcutta watchmaker, gave him strong support, and eventually in 1816 the Hindu college was founded at Calcutta for the instruction of Indians in English; and the decision of the government of India, in 1835, that its educational subsidies should promote mainly the study of European literature and science, found its natural sequel in the foundation, in 1857, during the very crisis of the mutiny, of universities in which English was to be the medium of instruction at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. The government of India had set out to give its subjects, so far as might be, an English mind.   Ã‚  As a result of this policy, there is, in modern British India, a steady and increasing output of English literature written by Indians. But, as is only natural, so drastic an innovation as the complete changing of a people’s literary language could not bear immediate results of value, and not only has the bulk of Anglo-Indian literature continued to be written by Englishme n, but, for a very long time, it remained doubtful whether Indians, could so completely become Englishmen in mind and thought as to add, except in the rarest and most exceptional cases, anything of lasting value to the roll of English literature. 0  Ã‚  While this remarkable change was beginning in India, Anglo-Indian writers were not idle. Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, claims attention here rather by his Narrative of a Journey from Calcutta to Bombay than by his few Anglo-Indian poems; Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, most famous of those of our Indian fellow-men who are neither exclusively European nor Indian but share the blood of both, put all the pathos and passion of his own sensitive nature into his metrical tale The Fakeer of Jungheera; Henry Meredith Parker is remembered not only as an actor and musician but as a poet, essayist and story-teller. Among his productions was an Indian mythological narrative poem called The Draught of Immortality and two clever volumes of miscellaneous prose and verse entitled Bole Ponjis (The Punch bowl). Major David Lester Richardson, of the Bengal army, abandoned military life and devoted himself to education and literature. He takes rank among Anglo-Indian writers mainly as a literary critic, though he also wrote poetry and history. The titles of his books, such as Literary Leaves, Literary Chit-Chat, Literary Recreations, are an index of the general trend of his mind, and suggest that he was probably happier in his work at the Hindu college, to which, by Macaulay’s influence, he was appointed in 1836 as professor of English literature, than he had been in his previous career. Henry Whitelock Torrens, who was secretary of the Asiatic society from 1840 to 1846, was a clever essayist as well as a journalist and scholar, and his scattered papers were deservedly collected and published at Calcutta in 1854. Sir Richard Francis Burton was in India during this period, but his fame cannot be said to be specially Anglo-Indian. 11   Ã‚  Of the historians during the period, James Grant Duff and Mountstuart Elphinstone are pre-eminent. Grant Duff’s History of the Mahrattas (1826) and Elphinstone’s History of India (1841) are two of the classics of Indian history. The romantic interest of the former book, the accurate though uninspiring conciseness of the second, and the pioneering ability shown by both in the untilled regions which they surveyed, gave these books a standing which they still hold, despite the advance of knowledge since they appeared. Other historians were Horace Hayman Wilson, the Sanskrit scholar, who continued and edited James Mill’s History of British India; John Briggs, the translator of Ferishta’s Muhammedan Power in India; Sir Henry Miers Elliot, the unwearied student of the history of Mussulman India, whose History of India as told by its own Historians was edited after his death by John Dowson; and Sir John Kaye, prominent in the history of Anglo-Indian letters as the founder, in 1844, of The Calcutta Review, to which he frequently contributed. He also, long after his departure from India, wrote Indian history voluminously, his History of the Sepoy War in India being his best