Social networks and interaction patterns are often complicated and intricate patterns occurring in many species on Earth. Human social network examples include Facebook, Twitter and simple friendship associations. In the animal kingdom, social networks can involve various movements and actions, specific calls or vocalizations or participation in daily tasks such as grooming and eating. Our project initially focused on dolphin interactions in a group of dolphins studied for a period of two years off the coast of New Zealand and...

Northwestern's location, engineering school, Big Ten Sports, and internship opportunities were my focus

I really wanted to get out of Minnesota and I had a hard time initially figuring out where I wanted to go. I took a couple major trips with my dad to explore and learn about the country and different options. We went all...

I've been involved in a ton of things in my time at Northwestern from day 1. I've been a tour guide, a freshman mentor, member of the men's club soccer team, part of our dance marathon, and a member of a fraternity. I have taken leadership roles in my fraternity for planning a trip to...

I want to finish this year and start working full time in downtown Chicago. I've had internships in mechanical engineering, construction engineering and now in advertising. Each time I've worked at large, well known companies and gotten great exposure and experience to successful people in the field. At 3M I was part of a thin film manufacturing group that worked on aspects of the Apple...

My recommendations came from my national honor society mentor, my soccer coach, and a teacher I had for AP US history. They each had different perspectives...

This one is harder to answer in general. I think the elite schools are really looking for students that can bring something to the table. My leadership experience from high school clearly translated to Northwestern as...