OPA Companion · today’s check-in
Welcome back, Mira. Two milestones are live right now — collecting sources (04) and zeroing in on the shape (05). Stamps 01–03 are sealed; 06–08 are still ahead, with the senior paper as your north star. Your next real move, when you’re ready: decide whether the paper argues access, hazard, or the seam between them. You’ve got two gauges — find the third before you write a word.
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01
Saw it
Nashville — instrumentation = protection (Drinky & Stinky)
high school
02
Reframed it
The tools only work where there’s infrastructure; the unconnected are invisible
the pivot
03
Arrived at OPA
TRU / One Chain pipeline → first-year, water program
complete
04
Collecting sources
The three PLOS Water papers — access, hazard, ethics
now
05
Zeroing in
The measurement divide — naming the shape she can feel
in progress
06
The creed cracks
“Augment, never replace” → augment whom, for whose benefit?
ahead
07
The senior paper
The water-equity argument, written — title not yet named
north star
08
Defense
Let the data talk.
someday
X
College X — Engineering (ELUSK)
Building 10 · DEPT 1 Civil & Infrastructure · home department
✓
102
OPAT 102 — PHIN Integration
Freshman Studies (NULL) · College 0 · the only confirmed first-year requirement
✓
4.9
Research Integrity & Sourcing — the Three Gauge Test
HASS · Prof. Lester Pearson (also her advisor) · one source is a guess, two a hypothesis, three is engineering
[PROPOSED]
4.5
Environmental Justice & Communities
DCV · College V · Bldg 5 · the equity half of the work
[PROPOSED]
4.1
Data, Surveillance & AI Ethics
DOSA · College I · Bldg 1 · the guardrail her teenage self never had
[PROPOSED]
⚠ Class structure is aspirational — not yet formally set up. Course codes / section numbers are [PROPOSED], to be reconciled against the master OPA catalog. Only OPAT 102 (NULL, College 0) is a confirmed requirement. Faculty wired: Lester Pearson (advisor + Three Gauge Test) and Dr. Etadol Obodat (dept anchor) only.
Pearson keeps her aimed at the question, not the instrument: “Your whole creed assumes a human in the loop who knows the system. Out where there’s no pipe, who is that human — and is your instrument there to protect them, or to study them?”
The Three Gauge Test, his method: one source is a guess, two a hypothesis, three is engineering. She has two gauges — access and hazard. The third is the move that turns the stack into a paper.