 I love sociology, so getting to share sociology and how we can connect individual problems to structural issues is something that I really enjoy sharing with other people. I enjoy most working with students when they're trying to figure things out. I'm always trying to engage how our students interacting with things, how can they incorporate this into what they know, and how can I make it better so that they can, you know, do better with it. And so I teach really big classrooms of like 500 people at one time and then I teach really small classes in Cornerstone with 30 students at a time. It's really interesting to just sit down with students either on that big level and ask a big lecture-wide question and have students, like their light bulbs go off and they figure out, oh this was the theory that works best here, or when you're sitting with students in a small group discussion you're talking about like how does this article help us better understand. I chose to teach here because of how rich the teaching environment is. Being able to come to Purdue and having all of these technological resources and all of these people who were excited about innovating was something that I was really excited about jumping on board with. People have been so encouraging me the entire time I've been here. Everybody's been supportive and asked me to come on to projects and that's been fantastic. And then winning this university-wide award is very validating that I have been trying, like I've just come here and I was like I wouldn't take advantage of everything I possibly can and then getting recognized for that is pretty, it's pretty awesome. So it's a nice thing to be able to think about every once in a while. Everybody is always so supportive of my ideas and of helping me get to where I want to go so I can't imagine a place that would help me explore teaching more than Purdue is. I think that people at Purdue really genuinely care about undergrads. Everyone I talk to cares that undergraduates are getting the best experience possible and we want for them to have these good learning outcomes and for you to meet them and everybody that I talked to was always working on making their classes better to better engage their undergraduates and to push them farther. The students here are so much fun and they're so engaged with learning. They want to be here and they want to learn how to make the world a better place or how to do better in their careers and I really appreciate that about our students.