Credits: Image courtesy of the Dominguez family.
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MIT junior Sergio Dominguez “so loved learning,” says his sister Laura, that he insisted on entering elementary school a full year early. “He loved to learn new things and would spend so much time reading,” often pulling out a random encyclopedia volume and just digging in, she recalls.
Dominguez, a Course 6-9 (Computation and Cognition) major at MIT who lived in New House and later resided on East Campus, died suddenly last September. A native of El Paso, Texas, the Gates Millennium Scholar had a penchant for a wide range of intellectual pursuits, from philosophy to religion to the Japanese language. In a word, he was voracious.