Name: Julie Leeanne Mitchell
Home State: Louisiana
Currently Lives In: Texas
Birthdate: June 1984
AIM Screen name: WindRider35
Email Address: cosmicintrigue@mail.utexas.edu
Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, Russian
Sports: Cycling (obviously), weight lifting, racquetball (occasionally), hiking/mountaineering, running (when it's cold outside)
Pets: Bilbo the Chihuahua, Alexia the Cat, Neko (Tracy's cat), Humo (Mom's cat), Tabitha (Tiffany's cat)...I don't really have any of my own pets I just steal them from people :)
Stats:
Age: 22
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 135 lbs
Hair and Eye Color: Dark Brown
Resting Heart Rate: 55 bpm
Maximum Heart Rate: 218 bpm
School Stuff:
School: University of Texas at Austin
Majors: B.S. Aerospace Engineering & B.A. Geological Sciences
Classification: Senior
Current Overall GPA: 3.7
Current Job: Co-op, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX
Former Job: Undergraduate Research Assistant, UT Wind Tunnel Labs
Organizations: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics , UT Cycling Club , Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, United States Cycling Federation(USCF), National Collegiate Cycling Association(NCCA), Sigma Gamma Tau (Aerospace Engineering Honor Society)
Cycling Stuff:
USCF Road/Track Category: Women Cat. 4
USCF Team: Team LaS'port
NCCA Road/Track Category: Women A
NCCA School: UT Austin
Club Affiliations: UT Cycling Club (former Vice President), Shreveport Bicycle Club
Bike: K2 Mod 5, X-Small, with Shimano Ultegra
Cycling Since: September 2001
Racing Since: September 2002
Longest One-day Ride: 101 miles
Longest Ride Weekend: 200 miles
Favorite Pro Cyclists: Nicole Freedman, Laura Van Gilder , Jan Ullrich
Current Track PRs:
200m: 13.93s
500m: 43.4s
Favorites:
Color: Blue
Musical Instrument: Flute (can't play it, though)
Classical Composer: Claude Debussy
Board Game: a tie between Chess and Go
Book: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
TV Show(s): Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1 (Julie = nerd), Robot Chicken, Law & Order SVU
Musician: Vangelis
Movies: Contact, Equilibrium, Real Genius, Gattaca, Jurassic Park, Lawrence of Arabia, Love Letter, My Sassy Girl
Poem: "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
Random Facts about me:
1. I'm addicted to caffiene.
2. Chocolate Mint Pria bars are my favorite snack.
3. Spaghetti tastes good with chili.
4. I can push 500 lbs on the inclined leg press.
5. I like to build those insanely complicated Japanese models of ancient castles and pagodas.
6. It turns out that I was wrong about quarks...they only have +2/3 or -1/3 charge.
7. I don't know what else to tell you, other than that you must be really bored to be reading this... ;)
Current Projects (check oot the Projects page!)
-Engineers without Borders, water filter design lead and fund raising co-co-lead, sort of
-C-9 project, testing the viability and characteristics of tethers for various space-based (microgravity) applications
-Space Generation Congress, designing a lunar habitat and studying the constraints involved in its construction/maintenence
-Robotics: currenly working on a line-following robot for...well, for my secret plans for world domination, of course!
-Lamp: A lamp made of origami lilies...haven't quite worked out the technical details yet, but I've got a trashbag full of paper lilies just waiting to catch on fire!