The new skills I gained in this workshop are invaluable. It showed me how computer science could be helpful, and in some cases absolutely necessary, to validate and facilitate many different fields of research in biology. Specifically, I learned how to use MATLAB, which complements my other programming languages and will help me in lab. My favorite part of the workshop was getting to meet the amazing faculty at MIT, and having one-on-one conversations with them. It was a truly memorable experience.