By Kevin Cole, Omaha WORLD-HERALD
Hollie O’Brien’s road from central Nebraska to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took her through five schools without leaving her Arcadia High School desk. Wanting to better her chances for admission to one of the nation’s premier science schools, O’Brien took courses in nuclear engineering and physics taught at Burke High in Omaha; government, pre-calculus, trigonometry and geometry from Ansley High; calculus from Burwell High; and English from Central Community College in Kearney. And just for fun, she added some computer science for advanced scholars from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “I was able to take the courses that I needed in schools all around Nebraska without leaving Arcadia,” O’Brien said. “I wanted more math, so I went for it.”
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