Carl Bialik '97

Encompassed – Bronx Science Stories

“There was the joy of the insight of solving something. It came quite a bit in Math team […] There was usually some sort of very ugly, brute force way you could try to solve a problem, and then there was a really elegant way. I didn’t always find the elegant way but when I did, it brought me that same satisfaction […] My brain was already switching so much between topics, which every student does, but I think a good part is that I became very comfortable using both sides of the brain.”