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.
“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 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.
After settling in and orientation, Zoya toured the campus and was “genuinely impressed by the beauty and atmosphere at UChicago. The architecture and green spaces are stunning, and I could have easily spent hours exploring.”
Emily Edwards says that her first week at the Bard College Young Writers Workshop was, in one-word, “different.” “Any building on campus could easily be accessed in a less than 10-minute walk through the beautiful, humid, wooded paths. The classrooms were one of the few air-conditioned buildings, providing nice cool spaces to write, read, and discuss,” Emily says.
Tanya Arun says that her first week at the Washington University Research Development Institute has been different from what she expected, “but in a good way.”