I wouldn't have spent the last 15 months any other way. I've definitely come away with much better research and communication skills.

Doing the research also gives you more of a direction at school because you can see why everything that you are learning is important.

10-week summers of this taught me more than the majority of my soon-to-be 4 years of college.

I learned a lot more biology in the past two summers, too, than I did in all the rest of my life combined.

I feel like this program has shown me that I'm able to work in grad school and actually succeed. That alone was invaluable.

I feel like I actually understand what a research career would entail,…

I don’t consider bioinformatics/bioengineering a career. On the other hand, the program has motivated me to see how bioinformatics could be regularly implemented as part of my biology career.

...my primary focus was bioinformatics...[but] I actually fell in love with the engineering side of this program, and will pursue that in the future. My experience doing hands-on research in the lab absolutely motivated this.

Best 20 weeks of my life.