Three Weeks by the Sea | UChicago College Admissions Blog

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By Nora Bradford, University of Chicago, Class of 2019 October 17, 2017
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The circuit Nora Bradford built in her course at MBL.
The circuit Nora Bradford built in her course at MBL, “Observing Proteins in Action; How to Design and Build your own Instruments.” The students built circuits "so that we could learn to model a cell membrane through its electric properties," Bradford writes.

Just a month ago, my dad drove me from our home near Boston, MA to a small, picturesque, seaside town on Cape Cod called Woods Hole. This town isn’t like any other coastal spot; it’s a world-renowned hub of marine biological study. Scientists come from all over the country and the world to study and work here. So, for a young scientist like me, traveling to Woods Hole was a dream come true.

What was I doing there? Here’s some context: UChicago has had an affiliation with the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole since 2013. Now, for the first time, they’ve developed classes specifically for undergraduates. Read more of the article here.

Source: Three weeks by the Sea | College Admissions | The University of Chicago