Mae La, a refugee camp directly on the border of Thailand and Burma, is filled with roofs made of metal and organizational difficulties. Mae La is mostly dirt, and the roads change seemly randomly from wide enough for one car to pass, to foot paths, then motorcycle paths, and then back to roads. The soilRead more about The All Too Common Story of Students in Mae La[…]

Thomas whispered in my ear, “Do you think this better if you can understand what he’s saying?” I told him I thought it was probably worse.  We sat atop the stage, in white plastic lawn chairs, beneath dangling multicolored balloons, facing the Engineering Study Program class of 2011, Mae La refugee camp, on the Thai-BurmeseRead more about What do you say in a commencement speech in a refugee camp?[…]