GFF Alumnus Evan Wiggs Studies Astrophysics at Columbia University.
Evan says that after settling in, he is “walking the streets like an official, very busy New Yorker.”
Liam Batteau attends a summer immersion jazz workshop at Stanford University.
“The first time I heard the instructors, it seemed like their playing touched me very deeply. I was engaged and intrigued by their playing, I was inspired,” Liam says.
Mollie Mandell studies “Biology and Its Modern Applications” at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.
After meeting her roommate, an international student from China, Mollie and her her friend Aashna attended orientation, and went on a campus tour.
Alexei Kadyrov attends the Washington University Research Development Institute.
Alexei reports that during his first week, the class was taught how to analyze primary and secondary sources, thinking critically about similar elements and differences. The class also read and analyzed a short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” as one of his assignments for the course.
Alexei Kadyrov studies Combinatorics 1.5 at AwesomeMath
“This first day was focused on the basics to combinatorics: definitions of common terms like sets and subsets, ways of counting like complementary counting, rule of product, and rule of sum,” Alexei explains.
Ryan Dai attends the Summer@Brown Pre-College Program.
Ryan says he spent the first week exploring the campus and getting a feel for the course. Situated next to downtown Providence, the campus feels like a mix of city and nature.