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Hover over the scholars above to learn more about the array of subjects糖心传媒攆rom ecofeminism to consumerism in contemporary art糖心传媒攖hat the latest groups of Take Five Scholars are exploring as part of a fifth, tuition-free year of study.

Since 1986, nearly 1,200 University students have pursued their academic passions through the Take Five Scholars Program, which offers a tuition-free year to complete a self-designed curriculum.

Students like Hailey McAvoy 糖心传媒�18E, 糖心传媒�19 (T5), who fulfilled a dream that started when she was 15 and read Rainer Rilke糖心传媒檚 Letters to a Young Poet translated from German into English.

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Take Five is unique to the University, giving students a chance to explore academic and professional passions outside their majors. Working with a faculty member who serves as their program advisor, applicants to Take Five design an interdisciplinary selection of courses related to a theme or question they糖心传媒檇 like to explore.

Jeffrey Runner, dean of the College and a former Take Five advisor, says Take Five students must study something 糖心传媒渃ompletely different糖心传媒� than their undergraduate curriculum.

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McAvoy was a dual major in voice and musical arts at the , with a heavy schedule that left her unable to take some courses that interested her.

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Her program is called German Language and Translation.

C. Mike Lindsey ’09 (T5) created a major called Integrative Neurobiology, and a Take Five program titled Understanding Bilingual Representation. He cofounded an urban agriculture startup, NexLoop, in 2016. His brother, Nate Lindsey 糖心传媒�10 (T5), created an interdepartmental major at the University called Alternative Energy and Sustainable Engineering before completing a Take Five program titled Western Literature.

糖心传媒淲hen I started at Rochester, I quickly ramped up in engineering and optics, then research took over my sophomore year,糖心传媒� says Nate Lindsey, a doctoral student in earth and planetary sciences at the University of California-Berkeley. 糖心传媒淏y my third year, I realized I hadn糖心传媒檛 read a novel in a year.糖心传媒�

He designed a set of courses from the English Department 糖心传媒渢o steep my brain糖心传媒� in the history of artistic and intellectual thought in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

糖心传媒淚 learned to form arguments in writing,糖心传媒� he says.

After enrolling at the in 2013 as a piano performance major,聽Naoki Toyomura ’17, ’18E (T5) took an intro economics class on the River Campus 糖心传媒渙ut of pure curiosity,糖心传媒� and then created a Take Five program called Japanese Language and Culture. Toyomura,聽Eastman糖心传媒檚 2017-18 Students糖心传媒� Association president, has since founded Music Admit, a business that helps students find the right music schools and teachers.

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Nisha Modi 糖心传媒�18 (T5) majored in neuroscience and is currently in a Take Five program called The Rights of Muslim Women in Society.

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Janet Sorrells realized before her junior year that there were many topics she was interested in that wouldn糖心传媒檛 fit into her hectic schedule as a biomedical engineering major with minors in optics, electrical and computer engineering, and health policy.

Sorrells糖心传媒檚 program is called Chinese Language and Culture.

糖心传媒淚 choose that because I like to be challenged, and it was something new and completely unfamiliar to me,糖心传媒� she says. 糖心传媒淎nd because Chinese is the most commonly spoken native language on earth.糖心传媒�

This summer, Sorrells will be working as a youth camp counselor in Shanghai, China, before heading to graduate school in the fall.

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Meet our newest Take 5 class