Cool things scientists do in universities

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<p>Sometimes in the admissions frenzy we forget what’s cool and unrelated initially to anything other than sheer discovery …</p>

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<p>Try to ignore the not too subtle Pton marketing…</p>

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<p>There’s often an inherent practicality in grouping brilliant and motivated people in one place and letting them feed off and inspire one another. But I guess that’s the whole idea behind getting into the elite universities which spawn the admissions frenzy, huh? :-)</p>

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<p>Or at your normal good state university.</p>

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