Hi internet, I'm Nisha. I've always firmly upheld that you can usually tell a lot about a person by what they get excited about. Not, “Oh yeah haha that’s pretty cool” excited - I’m talking wild eyed, foaming at the mouth, “OMIGOD YASSSS” excited.
For me, that's always been video games (read: Final Fantasy 7). When I was at MIT, I majored in 6-3 and CMS (read: video games) and did many years of undergraduate research at the Media Lab studying and building playful technologies. I did a few internships at big gaming companies. I was a varsity fencer. I lived in East Campus and was generally a gremlin. I did all of these things because they sparked that same excitement I described, and I'm eternally grateful for the many ways in which MIT allowed me to pursue that feeling. I'm also grateful that I was hired to spew my thoughts about that journey in these posts, even if some of them are cringe.
I've continued to let my love for games carry me forwards and I try to do work that demonstrates to the world how inspiring and educational games can be. You can check out what I'm up to now at my personal website: https://ndevasia.github.io/
