![“The whole goal of my life is to fix all the people problems. I sincerely think that the biggest problems we have are how we deal with each other, and how we treat each other. [We need to be] promoting empathy and understanding, and technology is an enormous power to influence that in a good way,” senior Garrett Parrish says.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_result_item/public/images/201701/A1-MIT-Garrett-Parrish-02.jpg?itok=HF6F_NM_)
Creating “big, beautiful things”
Senior Garrett Parrish combines art and technology, with dramatic effects.
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