Basically a listing of posts I'll create to advise students interested in the sciences. This is related to Vipul Naik's Cognito Mentoring project (see ... (more)
Christopher VanLang,
Written 84w ago · Upvoted by Arvin Chang, graduated Magna Cum Laude in CS from Harvard, Harvard admissions interviewer
Having gone to all sorts of nerd camps, I've been lucky to interact with a lot of "smart people". CTY and Math camp exposes you to the community of the top 1% of intelligent people. I was not one of the smartest but I did make the cut to go to Yale and later on Stanford. However, many of my peers never made that jump. I think that there are two things are... (more)
For me, it was a tough choice, but an excellent one. It happened in two stages, the administrative and somewhat straightforward stage, and the emotional and very difficult stage.
When I dropped out, I was a medical student at Tehran University finishing up my second year. A year later I started as a freshman at MIT (In Iran you start medical school after... (more)
When I dropped out, I was a medical student at Tehran University finishing up my second year. A year later I started as a freshman at MIT (In Iran you start medical school after... (more)
ASBMB Today, the membership magazine of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
So many useful anecdotes!!
So many useful anecdotes!!
