<p>acarter, there is a bus every day more than once to the Snow Bowl, ten minutes away…My S got all his classes…As the Princeton Review states “runs like butter”</p>
<p>i like how there’s a thread on this forum advertising people to apply to it. nice :)</p>
<p>Definitely go to Midd for the sciences! I just graduated from the molecular biology and biochemistry department, and it’s amazing! I can’t say enough about the sciences at Midd. The professors are great, really open and always available to help. Research opportunities are top notch: you can start as early as your freshman year in a lab with one of the professors. One thing that really stands out to me is the number of options you have. Oftentimes, your choices for your major are limited to biology, chemistry, and physics. At Midd, you can choose from biology, chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology and biochemistry (my favorite, of course), environmental studies-conservation biology, neuroscience, physics, and I’m sure there are more that I’m forgetting. Plus, the curriculum is flexible enough that if you want to combine two crazy things, you can probably do it (eg. my friend did a political science/religion joint major). You also have opportunities at Midd that you can’t find anywhere else. We’re blessed with being a small college, so you get personal attention in all of your classes, but at the same time, there are resources at Midd that most LAC don’t have. For example, we have a sequencer in the science building that every single student who takes molecular genetics learns how to load and run. Any other college either wouldn’t have a sequence, so they would send it to the nearest research university. At big universities, these sequencers are run by technicians, so students never see them. It’s skills like these that you can’t gain anywhere else. Plus, the classes are great. I’m in graduate school at Yale now, and I’m finding that my classes at Midd felt more like graduate courses than some of my actual graduate courses are. I could go on and on for days about science at Midd, but suffice to say, it’s great and the departments prepare their students exceedingly well for graduate school, research, and beyond. Bihall is my favorite place on the planet.</p>
<p>Also, study abroad! Even as a science major, do it do it do it! I went to Italy for a semester (almost stayed the whole year-it’s possible!). Science at Midd allows and encourages study abroad. I even worked in a lab in Italy, and I stayed under the language pledge the entire time. Tell me, where else are you going to be able to do that?!</p>