Shubham Khoje

Is the future of farming indoors?

As we face an uncertain future with rapid climate change, and global supply chain disruptions, there are several concerns about food production safety and food security..
The fascinating world of AgTech

“Agriculture is a manufacturing process but it is in fact 10x or even 100x harder than a traditional manufacturing….”
A day in my life as a Manufacturing Engineer

My employer, NSK Corporation, is a world renowned Japanese company that manufactures a whole array of bearings. I work at their facility in Clarinda, Iowa, that supplies ball bearings to major automobile makers all over the world. The bearing is a fairly simple product, but the components that makes up a bearing go through multiple […]
Quarter-life crossroads

I turned 25 in January this year and now that I have completed my education and have a job, that puts me in the “settled” category of the natural order of things. Honestly, I do no feel that way. Recently, I was watching Taylor Tomlinson’s Netflix special “Quarter-life Crisis”, which was hilarious and I didn’t […]
The audiobooks I liked in 2019

I used to drive to my internship and listening to the same songs play on the radio station everyday eventually wore on me. So instead..
The Missions of San Antonio: Summer of ’19

We are in the second half of the year and my summer was pretty busy with graduation, my grandparents visiting me, and me enjoying the awesome weather with a few trips that I have been lazy to write about. Toward the end of this summer I had the opportunity to visit San Antonio, Texas. I […]
The West Coast Trip: Second leg

The first leg of the west coast trip ended in San Francisco having spanned the southern parts of California all the way to San Diego. This is where the second leg began, with two of my friends and a rented car. We had meticulously planned this trip to go through California, Nevada, Oregon, and all […]
The West Coast Trip: First leg

The year 2018 was an eventful year for me, I achieved the goal that brought me to the US in the first place i.e. getting a master’s degree. I was able to travel to Florida in the summer, to New York and Wisconsin in the fall. The west coast that had eluded me for 2 […]
A day at Universal Studios, Florida

Universal Studios is a theme park with numerous rides and attractions from the movie franchises and shows it owns. There are several such Universal theme Parks spread all around the world, however, on my recent conference trip to Orlando, I arrived in a day earlier to visit the Universal Studios in the city. I was able to spend an entire day here and did some pretty interesting things.
Long Layover in Abu Dhabi

The most awaited journey for the year 2017 was turning into reality. This December I was going home for the holidays to visit my family after a year and a half. Agreed, that I was connected with them over the internet, however, it is never the same as meeting them in person. In order to […]
Weekend in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City

It was the last week of summer ’17 and I was looking forward to beginning my third semester at Iowa State University. As the entire summer was spent in exploring Iowa and Ames, with my trip to NYC an added bonus, the last weekend had to end with a trip as well. Three of my friends […]
Marvels of D.C

Washington DC, the capital of the United States was on the itinerary of my third day of my mini vacation. Though we were reluctant to wake up early to leave for DC because of the two tiring days in NYC, we were able to leave by 8 am. We drove on the Turnpike, a toll highway […]