Nida Intarapanich, DVM

The first mate shouted, "The cannons be ready, Captain!" 

The captain hollered back, "ARE!"

I believe a person's sense of humor says a lot about them.

What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber? 

Nothing, because you can't cross a vector and a scaler.*

The nerdy jokes I treasure span the academic spectrum, much like my own interests. 

My proclivity for editing arose from a lifelong love of reading and writing. I spent a significant portion of my formative years writing and editing simply because I enjoyed it. The progression from penning short stories in notebooks to running school literary magazines and volunteering to write and edit educational materials for non-profit organizations was as natural to me as breathing. However, just as with breathing, it never occurred to me to turn it into a career.

Besides, I also loved math, science, and foreign languages. What was a girl to do? 

Two kittens are on a slanted surface. Which one slides to the bottom first?

The kitten with the smallest mew.**

I dove straight into college after 10th grade. A liberal arts school was the obvious choice for me, given the breadth of my academic interests. After plotting out the courses and labs required for my biology major and potential future medical school applications, I was delighted to discover that I still had credits available to explore Dartmouth’s other course offerings. After my first session of “History of the English Language,” I was certain that the next two years would involve an unenviable amount of dashing between the biology classrooms in the northern part of campus and the humanities lecture halls in the southeast, and I earned a minor in linguistics.

When I ultimately decided to pursue veterinary medicine, my motley crew of language- and writing-related pastimes had no intention of admitting defeat and going gently into that good night, relegated to “safe topics of conversation for dinners with non-veterinarians.”

Instead, they banded together and led me here. Unlike the aforementioned mosquito and mountain climber, my miscellany of passions can, in fact, be crossed with each other, and the result is academic editing.