About Me — Deepti Kannapan
I love wildlife, math, and fantasy, and have way too many interests
Origin Story
I’m secretly a Texan. I don’t remember living in Austin, though, since we moved to New York when I was quite young.
I spent most of my early childhood in Ithaca with my parents and grandparents. My sister was born when I was seven. There are lots of creative types in my family, so there was no shortage of encouragement for my interests in writing, drawing, and science.
I remember Ithaca fondly — the treehouse at my preschool, sledding down tiny hills and watching a lot of kids’ science programs.
That’s pretty much all I watched. My grandma sewed me a pink mini-version of Bill Nye the Science Guy’s lab coat at my request.
We moved around a bit, and the biggest move of all was to India when I was eight. I think I took it in stride, but I don’t really like moving.
Academically, I had some catching up to do —the two years of Hindi and the bit of multiplication I was behind by. The challenge of catching up was satisfying when I found I could do it.
Across cultures
The culture shock was another story. The differences in norms weren’t something I could just…
