 When I got here, I definitely knew I wanted to be a hockey player. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do in psychology. I knew I was interested. But I think that was the coolest thing about the psych program here was I had Dr. Elliott, who is a behavioral psychologist, and Dr. Tallahouz, who's a neurobiologist, and Dr. Bill Gates, who's a humanistic counsellor, and Dr. Ayanone, who she was a college athlete herself and played volleyball. So she was really, really supportive in me working through the athletics and the academic side of things. I got to say I'm a student first. I've gotten the chance through Stevenson to get an internship with a psychiatrist and do a lot of interesting things that I didn't necessarily know were out there. I knew coming in here that hockey was an option for some people after college, and I kind of knew different routes and things, but I had no idea about what it really took to get a PhD and what it really takes to become a contributing member of an academic community. Our psychology department is really characterized by faculty who are extremely dedicated to the students. Any time you walk by that department, their doors are open, they're meeting with students, they're in the labs doing research with students, and this kind of one-on-one attention is what lets our psychology students really have the flexibility to pursue different options, both while they're students here at Stevenson and then as they go on to their careers. So when we have a student like Jacob, who has this amazing opportunity to go and play hockey professionally, our faculty are really able to work with him and to tailor some of his coursework, to tailor some of his assignments so that he's able to both pursue his career, to pursue his dream, and to complete his education with the same level of focus and rigor as all of our other Stevenson psychology majors. He is one of those students who makes sure they get their work in on time, sometimes early, and he would submit his assignments early and ask for feedback so he could submit a really good assignment. And I think that's key. I trust that he can do the work and he would do it well, and he would put in the effort, which is really the key component. He would put in the effort to get it done, get it done well. Dr. Tullik sat us down and said that we can do this. She's had multiple students who have become dentists, doctors, and other forms of high-functioning professionals, and that kind of motivated me, really, too. If college hockey was going to be just a stepping stone to what hockey could be for me, then it really made me realize undergraduate studies were going to be a stepping stone of what I really could accomplish, too, and that's something that I feel a lot of pride in. I'm going to be able to walk this spring and get my degree within just four years.