Dear Editor:
My name is Stephanie Bouchey, and I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at Brown University (Providence, RI). I study planetary science, an interest that led me to intern at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, Ala.) in 2009.
There, I gained a passion for “inner space” to complement my love of outer space; that is, I fell in love with caves.
I applied to…