 The footprints that I'll be able to leave because of what Purdue set me up for enables me to really help as many people as I can help patients in small ways and big ways and I know that I'll have effect in a lot of patients lives and I'm a medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzler School of Medicine. I plan to become either a neurosurgeon or a psychiatrist. So I actually was able to find a research lab my first semester at Purdue but there's a really great opportunity to learn about what a good hypothesis was for science and how you go about researching that and so I was really able to weigh the experience that I got at Purdue through that one semester into the rest of the research experiences I got and all those really helped me get into medical school. I got to study abroad in Spain and Morocco through Purdue. I was able to learn how to work with people from different cultures and it was a great experience to learn those skills and also to see different places around the world. The single person I would say was most influential for me at Purdue was probably April Heady. All over the four years I got to develop professionally and personally. My senior year I was the vice president of events with Purdue Foundation Student Board and so I was able to work directly with April. I can really point to her as the person that helped me navigate through Purdue and then helped me navigate my way into medical school as well. What I was really thankful for my time at Purdue was developing skills necessary to not only studying well and being able to handle the material in an efficient way but also dealing with stress so I can often reach out to my friends that graduated with me and tell them my troubles or if I have a hard test coming up I know that the skills that I developed at Purdue and how to study for a test and how to make sure I can you know rise in the occasion. In undergraduate I saw the build relationships with professors and things like that but in medical school those relationships will see you through for the rest of your career and some of these faculty and doctors and residents that you're working with now you know will sometime in the future be your equal and so Purdue helped me make the giant leap to be able to deal with those relationships and know how to network properly so that I am as successful as I can be. Thanks Purdue I know that I will change the world I know that I will be able to leave things better than when I found them. That was Nathan Muntz look for more stories at purdue.edu slash footprints