Leif's Swarthmore College experience

What I participated in as an undergraduate at Swarthmore College:

I was chief engineer of WSRN-FM for two years.

I wrote editorials for The Phoenix

I was in the Amos J. Peaslee Debate Society.

I was in the orchestra, jazz band, and occasionally chorus.

I worked at Sproul Observatory for two years photographing stars.*

I was a member of SWIL for my first two years.

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* I photographed stars on glass plates {really!!!} for determination of their positions. By measuring their positions over a number of years astronomers could tell if they were orbiting with another star that's too faint too see, or possible if they're orbiting with a big planet. Dr. Wulff Heintz of Sproul Observatory found the smallest brown dwarf ever found this way. {A brown dwarf is like a star that never made it into a full fledged star, it's like a campfire that never really got going.}