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COM^2 Mentorship Program
A photo from a meeting with my COM^2 mentee at Saint Bread, a bakery that my interdisciplinary honors mentor first introduced me to....
Andrew Shaw
May 26


Nurturing a Garden of Ideas
The physical copies of our Autumn 2024 issue, my first issue as editor-in-chief! My senior year, I was selected by the previous...
Andrew Shaw
May 26


HONORS 100 4-Year Plan
My 4-Year Plan (as of 5/26/2025) I'll admit there are some Type-A tendencies that I haven't been able to shake during college, and...
Andrew Shaw
May 26


University of Washington Center for Human Rights
15 Year UWCHR Celebration From Winter 2024 to Spring 2025 (with a brief hiatus from Summer 2024 to Autumn 2024), I have worked as a Human...
Andrew Shaw
May 20


Agonistic Image Generation: Unsettling the Hegemony of Intention
A figure from my paper showing the different interfaces we tested. Our agonistic interface is in the bottom right! I wrote this paper...
Andrew Shaw
May 20


Personhood at the Limits of Justice: Property, Relationality, and African Conceptions of Dignity // Unofficial Undergraduate Philosophy Thesis
I had always had the idea of writing an undergraduate philosophy thesis about African philosophy throughout my early undergraduate years...
Andrew Shaw
May 20


PHIL 405: A Sense of Belonging
The comment I received from Dr. Mendoza on my essay! I took PHIL 405 (Political Philosophy of Race) with Dr. Mendoza in Winter 2025....
Andrew Shaw
Mar 19


Autumn 2024 Reflection: Breaking Limits
My Autumn 2024 Transcript I've always had a strange relationship to grades. On one hand, I believe that the learning is more important...
Andrew Shaw
Jan 5


My Summer as a Scyborg
Me and one of my co-interns in our last week at AWS. In A Third University is Possible , K. Wayne Yang writes, "The agency of the scyborg...
Andrew Shaw
Sep 7, 2024


All Roads Lead to Rome: Demoracy and Information Technology under Data Capitalism
This quarter, I completed my first ad hoc honors project with Dr. Mark Purcell in the class URDBP 200: Introduction to Urbanization. As a...
Andrew Shaw
Jun 18, 2024


My BS/MS Application
As my junior year came to an end, I found myself facing a difficult decision. I realized that if I wanted to apply to graduate school or...
Andrew Shaw
Jun 15, 2024


Revolution from Kant to Marx: A Defense of the Right to Rebellion // PHIL 332 Final Paper
The first iteration of this essay was a final paper for PHIL 332. I officially published this paper in the Spring 2023 issue of The...
Andrew Shaw
Mar 25, 2024


Care Ethics in the Age of AI: An Interview with Dr. Peter Asaro
For those who have read my other reflections from my early years of college, this line may sound repetitive, but it bears repeating...
Andrew Shaw
Dec 17, 2023


Summer in Civic Tech
This summer, I had a transformative experience interning as a Full-Stack Sofware Engineering Fellow at the City of Baltimore through...
Andrew Shaw
Sep 30, 2023


Ubuntu and the Struggle for Reason: Humaneness Beyond Humanism // Puget Sound Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
On 12/2/2022, I received the following call for submissions from Gina Gould, the undergraduate philosophy advisor: Puget Sound...
Andrew Shaw
Apr 4, 2023


Summer at the Tech Policy Lab
This summer, I interned with the University of Washington's interdiscplinary Tech Policy Lab. During my internship, I thoroughly enjoyed...
Andrew Shaw
Sep 23, 2022


Ubuntu: Beyond an African Humanism
I wrote this paper over Winter and Spring quarter in my freshman year for publication in Columbia University's undergraduate philosophy...
Andrew Shaw
Sep 15, 2022


My UW CS Application
When I first got into UW, I applied to and was rejected from the computer engineering major. Looking back, I had pretty terrible...
Andrew Shaw
Feb 10, 2022


Autumn Quarter Reflection: A Cautious Return
Caution seems to have been the overarching theme for much of my first quarter at UW. A cautious return to in-person learning. Cautious...
Andrew Shaw
Nov 22, 2021


MATH 126: A Lesson In Studying
Truth be told, I was the most nervous to start MATH 126 out of all of my classes. While I knew that I was fairly competent at writing and...
Andrew Shaw
Nov 22, 2021
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