STUDENT COMMENTS

So what did the participants have to say about the NKS Summer School experience?

Here is a collection of thoughts, comments, and advice for next year's attendees.

Some thoughts and comments...
It is a truly interdisciplinary and intercultural experience that I will never forget.... The NKS Summer School enabled me to learn many aspects of NKS and Mathematica, and to be able to produce meaningful results in a very short time. --Weili Luo			If you want to see life, the universe, and everything else from a computing point of view, NKS Summer School is the right place to start! --Daniel Carvalho
		With the little I have seen, the world of learning should be getting ready for NKS take-over! --Francisca Aladejana
It's a learning experience for anyone interested in being a part of an exciting new frontier. I got the sense of being one of a large group of people working to build the groundwork for this new science. --Sean Lynch			It's a great environment for students of everywhere with a lot of conversations about nature, computations, complexity and new ideas arising in these current times. --Emmanuel Garcés Medina
		The primary value of the NKS Summer School to me was in making it clear what NKS is all about. It is about applying a new mode of thinking to the solution of scientific problems. This has enabled me to look at my research on new ways and has given me new pathways toward solutions to problems. --Allen Taylor
The best part was interacting with a fantastic group of people, all highly motivated, creative, and thinking outside the box. There was not a single boring conversation! --Mohammed AlQuraishi			The NKS Summer School is an intellectual tour de force, with highly competent instructors and fellow students. --Dag Soereboe
	All in all, quite an achievement. --Matt Frank
I believe that for many of us the most profitable time was spent hanging around in the [Wayland] lounge working hard in our projects and interacting with instructors and other Summer School students. --Frederico Meinberg			The opportunity to do research in an intense environment under the guidance of highly educated [Summer School staff] was a liberating launch into original research for me. --Lydia Chilton
		Very enthusiastic participants and extremely helpful instructing staff. --Evangelos Georgiadis
	It was an exciting three weeks of hard work and enriching communication with many intelligent and interesting people. --Eric Rowland		[The conference and SS:] deepened my practical and theoretical understanding of NKS; improved my skills and confidence as a Mathematica user; introduced new friends among the staff and the participants; are highlights in my résumé; turned into one of the best moons of my life. --Michael Schreiber
Advice for future attendees...
Get ready for some serious intellectual stimulation! --Thomas Zheng				Learn Mathematica. Read the Book. Have Fun! --Martin Schneider
		Learn as much Mathematica as possible beforehand. Try to find a project topic before the school, and prepare for it by reading related background material, with emphasis on the relevant parts of the NKS book. In order to help this, browse the booklet of Open NKS Problems. --Pedro P.B. de Oliviera
Attend the Conference, which will set the scene for your new train of thought process and throughout the conference you will get to know a bunch of interesting individuals. Think about what your project will be on; formulate a question and think about how you will be able to solve that. --Pedro P.B. de Oliviera				Internalize the key points of NKS! --Evangelos Georgiadis
		The only way to understand a complex system is to re-create it on your computer. NKS methods are the best. --Luca Zammataro