Major Academic Year Support (MAYS)

     Currently, I am working on a grant to fund my research with CIRDLES. Never in my life have I thought that I would eventually have to write a grant. My most brainiac brother would write grant proposals and get them and I thought, man he's so smart, look at his life. It never occurred to me that I might one day also apply for one. Even if it's not accepted, I think it's a big step in my life and could lead me in the right direction. I'm very excited to see how things will progress until my graduation. 

     Sometimes I think it was just luck. I came to college, a semester in started with a research team, and then another semester later took over the project I was working on. I constantly think of these things as luck, but in actuality, it was just me trying to do something for myself. I sought out research because I had mentors that assured me it was possible. These mentors have led me to want to mentor people myself. I want to do what they did for me. In the spring I'll be a peer facilitator for the Android App and Development FYE and I hope I can inspire them. I hope that I'll do for them what my peer facilitator did for me.