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It was a huge honor because I went down there and honestly walked into this room
and met my fellow candidates and thought wow I think I'm
in over my head here these people are really amazing.
So at the end of the day to be named a Rohde Scholar is really great and I think it comes
with a community, all of the people before and that have come of Rohde Scholars.
I think what really drives me in general is problem solving so being able
to say here's a question, and an interesting question, right now for me biophysics,
and being able to come up with solutions.
Saying this didn't work, this didn't work,
and the moment that you find something that ah ha this is the answer...
that's really exciting for me.
Other than that I'm still really driven by athletics, I'd love to continue pole vaulting,
I'm a big rock climber too so I am excited to get involved
with the mountaineering club over at Oxford.
And I am also really excited that Oxford has a bioethics program
over there bring together scientists and social scientists to talk about things
like stem cell research or what happens when we have a better understanding
of the brain what is going to be the implications on society.
Scientists are, without their choice, involved in this social structure that is dependent
on social organizations and political beings and beliefs of society so I kind of wanted
to incorporate that into my studies.
So I did some research first couple of years at the university
with professor Ronald Krebs looking at how the rhetoric of a nation,
the rhetoric towards terrorism influences the nations decisions towards policies.
So I was looking for a really strong academic institution in particular the physics
and the science program and the University of Minnesota offered that, and I was also looking
for a school that had a strong athletics program and the Big 10 holds their student athletes
to a really high expectation and in particular the track coaches here really value academics
so that was important to me.