 huge value for a program like Energy Act for incoming graduate students like myself who are sometimes moving into a new discipline or choosing something that sounds very interesting to them to study. It made me to see what are the areas of research and got me thinking of the kind of problems that we have and the kind of solutions that I could begin to think about. Energy at Sanford and Slack was a phenomenal introduction to the work that is being done on campus in Sanford. So when I attended this program it exposed me to the different options of alternative sources of energy. It gave me a chance to meet with other students who had the same interests and energy as I did. My undergrad was largely focused on water so this graduate program was different for me and I wanted to start getting into energy and having that first friend base was really great. Energy Act didn't present us with one view of the energy industry. It presented us with as many views as possible in this range from the political view of energy to the financial view, the economic view, the technical aspects and research that's going on. The chance to sit and talk with other incoming graduate students to get to know them on a more personal level and then also to just hear the amazing things that they had done or that they were playing on doing, what the research was going to be focused on. It gave me a lot of hope and it made me feel like my purpose in this generation is real.