 I'm Rebecca and I studied PHB focusing on astrophysics. So I was really interested in doing a research focus science degree and I heard from some tutors at the Physics Olympiad Summer School that the PHB program was a really great research program and so I did some research looking into which degrees were available at different universities and really came to the conclusion that the PHB was the best opportunity. For the last four years I've been working in the Galaxy Evolution Group with Professor Lisa Cooley and I've done a number of research projects and also my honours thesis in this group and this group has been really encouraging and motivating and they're also doing some really exciting research. The biggest highlight of my time at ANU was being able to do a three month summer internship at the Gemini South Observatory in Chile. So this was part of the Australian Gemini undergraduate summer student program which is a government funded student program and I was able to work with scientists there and get hands-on experience of what it's like to operate a large telescope day to day and this is really something that you can't get in Australia. For the next six months or so I'll be working as a research assistant in the same group that I've been working in during my undergrad and after that I'll be moving to Germany to do a PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Extra-Terrestrial Physics in Munich. I mean ANU has a lot of great science facilities that make studying science very unique, having the opportunity to work with the academics here, they're very friendly and my mentor has given me so much support and encouragement and I will remember that for the rest of my life.