We’re soooo 21st-century now

What you’ve heard is true. The fledgling Flinn Scholars YouTube channel is up.
The mission is grand (creepy?): We’ll document the lives of every last Scholar, from birth to death.
No, not really. But it’s going to be big!
To get things rolling, we’ve scoured The Internets and collected a few videos that were already out there, of [...]

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On the Road

Back when we were young enough to traipse all around Hungary and Romania, subsisting on Nutella and baguettes, Hungary and Romania were barely done being ruled by the Magyar chieftan Arpad.
A lot has changed in the neighborhood. Mainly because (well, not really, but bear with the hyperbole) each summer a class of Scholars, accompanied by [...]

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Let the floodgates open

And here comes some more coverage of the 23rd class of Scholars:
The Tucson Citizen offered a profile of Jason Xu (‘08) and another of David Ware (‘08) as part of the paper’s coverage of this spring’s area graduates. They also ran a story on all four new Scholars from the Tucson area–Jason, David, Alice Cai [...]

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Rocking like it’s 1992

No, we aren’t promising that Eddie Vedder will actually be there, and we don’t know about Matt Dillon and Bridget Fonda. But who cares, if you get to hear Sean Aiken (‘02) and the rest of the cover band Outshined play the best of Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and–this is where it gets [...]

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To do: Get that Fleetwood Mac song out of your head

Well, don’t put it past Justin Kiggins (‘02). He’s a pretty versatile guy. 
As evidence, we submit the two-page feature spread in the current magazine-ish thing for the Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. A rather impressed writer chronicles Justin’s arrival on campus as a would-be professional oboist, his pathway to bioengineering, and his way-cool research on music [...]

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“You are going to have fun”

The above promise from Sean Aiken (‘02) appears in this article from the Daily Wildcat. Read the Tucson Citizen’s article at your peril–Sean says he was a little sorta kinda misquoted.
Although… that’s exactly what the rock stars in “Almost Famous” said, too, and we know they were just embarrassed that the Cameron Crowe character had [...]

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Remember those Doublemint gum commercials?

The band DOUBLETOP is essentially the same thing, only with more clever lyrics. And more guitars, some of them played by Sean Aiken (‘02).
Okay. But its new album, “Firewater,” released Sept. 7, is cool and refreshing…

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Alum at the Apogee

Sarah Whitley (‘02) is part of the inaugural class at the new UA-Phoenix med school. And she’s going for free, courtesy of Apogee Physicians, as the first-ever Apogee Scholar. The rest of the story is on the Flinn Foundation website, here.

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