 So I grew up in a very multicultural and very interesting community. My dad's a tradie and my mum was a housewife. As a kid I was really interested in my education and I sort of saw my education not as a way out but as a way of making sure that I could live a good and happy and comfortable life. I learned about the Takwell Scholarship because I'm really lucky to have friends in the older cohorts. They got the Takwell Scholarship and so then I was like oh what's this thing, like they're all moving to Canberra and I started talking to them about it and then I came down and I saw A&U and I fell in love. I came down and I spoke to some scholars at interview weekend and I just kind of took a step back and thought there's something about all of you that I would like to be one day something about the dedication that you have to what you study or to your communities or to something else and I just thought it's not really about the money it's about the person that I'm going to become and that is such a unique opportunity. The scholars are really fun, they're really interesting people, everyone has a different sense of humour and learning to get along with such a diverse set of people and value each of them for what they can bring. I think it's something that will all take with us for a really long time in Black wherever we go. Being at the A&U, being a beneficiary of such philanthropy, I can't really ignore all of the responsibilities and the weight of what's been given to me and it's a really good thing, like a very positive and exciting thing that my life has been imbued with like some kind of duty to give something to the world. I don't really know where it's going to take me, I just know that I'm going to be really well educated and also really well empowered to make a difference and those two things wherever I go, I believe will work out pretty well.