 I was a very hardworking student, not necessarily the most naturally intelligent or gifted but a very hardworking student. I first heard about Tuckwell in January of 2018 and I was looking at all the universities in Australia and all the degrees and programs they offered trying to work out what I would actually do. I was browsing through ANU and I just happened to click on this button that brought me to the Tuckwell scholarship. I knew it was a very prestigious scholarship in Australia and they would attract some truly amazing people but I still wasn't prepared for what I actually met when I came to interview weekend. Just these incredible people all skilled in these incredibly versatile and different areas of life. I actually didn't see a lot in myself that made me think I would get it. At some points I have a pretty low level of self confidence and I thought I might not give it a shot basically. I think the program has encouraged me to step out of my shell in a lot of ways and to be very outgoing and social and talk to a lot of people. I've made a variety of friends across a bunch of disciplines which is very good because it means you're not boxed into people who just study science and so in that way it's really opened me up and changed me. 20 years into the future I hope that I'd be working either as a practicing doctor in some medical field or as a medical researcher and even border goal in that is to perhaps work for medicine or some frontier which is doctors without borders and to give back to communities overseas and to help refugees and other people who are struggling. You're always more capable than you think you are. Even if you think you don't have a chance at all that's exactly what I thought and look where I am now. You lose nothing by applying and at the very least even if you don't get it the application process in and of itself is actually quite a good one and you learn a lot about yourself when you try to answer these profound questions.