 Hi, my name is Anise Irick and I'm a psychology major and double minor in English and Middle Eastern studies. Next year I'll be attending George Mason University's Masters of Counseling Psychology and Development. During my time at UVM, I participated in the McNair Scholars Program, which is a competitive program that allows students seeking PhDs after graduation to participate in serious research under a PhD advisor. So we get to choose our own research questions and examine it on our own and at the end of it we have an entire research article to show for it, something that you will see on psych info and it was this experience that really led to me gaining admissions into George Mason and a lab position there in the psychology department as well, which is actually very rigorous. I'm excited to begin this new journey in the fall 2012 and I hope that it leads to a successful feature getting a PhD.