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Discuss “Students make way up to the Summit”

Four days before the semester began, while many Carnegie Mellon students were relishing what remained of their vacations, about 300 others were already back in class. These were the attendees of Summit 2008, a three-day program offering dozens of diverse classes taught by students, Carnegie Mellon faculty, and local professionals.

“[Summit] gives you time to do the stuff you’ve always wanted to do,” said Aneeb Qureshi, the president of Summit.

Leaving Differential Equations or Interpretive Practices for the school year, students at Summit are able to take more esoteric classes, from knitting to gun shooting and anime drawing to personal finance.

“The quality of each class was improved [from last year],” Qureshi said. He added that...

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