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As a high school senior Kelsey Brush ’20 was interested in music education as a possible career, but she wasn’t ready to commit her life to it. She had too many interests to explore, so instead of a conservatory, she went for Hamilton and its open curriculum.

Bilal Mustafa ’19 first became acquainted with the subject of finance at Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, where he was enrolled for two years before transferring to Hamilton College. At Hamilton, his interest in the market blossomed, as he realized he much preferred learning about the economy outside a formal education structure. This summer, Mustafa is putting his financial knowledge to the test, interning at global markets and financial advisory firm StormHarbour.

Last fall, Chenchen Zhao ’18 took Linear Optimization, a mathematics course with Professor Sally Cockburn. Zhao and Cockburn are designing an integer linear program that places incoming students into orientation groups, with as many as possible getting their top choices.

Omar Beesley '20 and Spencer Woolfson '20 study "word embedding," a modern technique that associates words with vectors and then uses linear algebra to discover links among words in large data sets.

Last fall, after taking Real Analysis, a course taught by Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz, a new, infinitely large world opened up for Lizz Spangenthal ’18 — she learned about Cantor’s Theorem.

Inspired in part by her math advisor and a penchant for world travel, Lanlan Yu ’18 found a study-abroad program that supports both her majors – math and Russian studies.

It seemed like all the math Jonah Boucher ’17 had learned so far came crashing together in his 300-level Real Analysis course – in a good way.