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Undergraduate - Laura Deming | Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT
Bio: I'm a rising sophomore, and not actually course 1, but I took DCEE as a freshman and loved it enough to come back this year! When I'm not at my lab or slogging away at psets, I like to read anything and everything (even the labels on foodstuffs!), and go to Red Mango for the best frozen yogurt outside of my home state, California. I feel like I should put some random facts in my bio, so here goes:
1. It can be a mystery. A detective story on steroids. A search for a macromolecular culprit, buried in the midst of a pile of data. Working in a lab can mean months spent hunting down a rogue protein.
What a Wonderful World
One climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Another started college in third grade. Another opened a business at age 9. And yet another scored 5580 on the SATs (on a total of 5 tests, but still). Now they're all getting two years of mentoring from a network of tech and entrepreneurial experts and $100,000 to start a business. The benefactor?
Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start Businesses | Fast Company
The Thiel Fellowship A radical re-thinking of what it takes to succeed, the Thiel Fellowship encourages lifelong learning and independent thought. With $100,000 and 2 years free to pursue their dreams, Thiel Fellows are changing the world one entrepreneurial venture at a time.