 Hello, I'm Michelle Maistrich and I would like to thank Dr. Hirsch and the Special Session Scholarship Committee for awarding me with one of the special session scholarships for new students. This award is going to help me so much. I'm pursuing the master's in informatics and as someone who is a first-generation college student, you know the first person in my family to get an undergrad degree, the first person in my family to pursue graduate study. This is awesome. I'm so excited to be able to focus on education and really give it my all. So thank you so much. This is really appreciated and it's an awesome scholarship. Thank you.