The PCT (j)
2650 miles
What is the length of the PCT?
The application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes.
What is biomedical engineering?
The Anaheim Ducks were named after this Disney movie.
What is the Mighty Ducks?
How many schools did I apply to?
11
The only venomous snake on the PCT.
What is the western diamondback rattlesnake?
Research that seeks to improve the health of individuals and the community by turning discoveries into diagnostic tools, medicines, procedures, policies, and education.
What is translational (biomedical) research?
The original rubber hockey puck was this shape.
What is square?
What school was my first acceptance from?
CMU
Campo, CA
What is the starting trailhead of the PCT?
A metaheuristic inspired by the process of natural selection that belongs to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms.
What is a genetic algorithm?
An infraction when a player shoots the puck over the center red line and the opposing team's red goal line. Also a sweet topping on a dessert.
What is icing?
What school was my first rejection from?
Berkeley/UCSF
The tallest peak in the contiguous US.
What is Mt. Whitney?
Data where the number of features exceeds the number of observations.
What is high-dimensional data?
These are the two universities that played the first American hockey game.
Who are Johns Hopkins and Yale Universities?
How many schools have just not bothered to respond to me in any way? (bonus points if you can name them)
2 (Columbia and UPenn)
Someone who has hiked all three long-distance trails in the US.
What is a Triple-crowner?
A kind of machine learning where instead of receiving a set of instances that are individually labeled, the learner receives a set of labeled bags, each containing many individuals.
What is multiple instance learning?
The NHL has this many rules to follow.
What is 87?
How many total interviews have I done? (with unique people)