• What is your favorite RPI course?

  WRIT 6380 Writing & Response.  This class was the 'spark' that started the path to my dissertation project.

• What are your research interests?

  Writing Studies, Contemplative Educational Philosophy/Pedagogy, Writing Center Studies, and Sensory Studies

• What major awards or recognition have you received?

  Rensselaer Graduate Fellowship - 2015; Founder's Award - 2019; HASS Fellowship - 2019 - 2021

• What is a fun fact about yourself?

  At the age of 19, was licensed to drive a rear-engine dragster as fast as a 7.50 ET at 180 MPH in a 1/4 mile.

• Why did you choose this program?

  The School of HASS at RPI has a big interdisciplinary focus, and the faculty and staff are really engaging and helpful. I chose CMD because it's a very flexible major. It gives me the ability to steer my curriculum more towards multimedia communication and writing.

• What's your favorite class at RPI; why do you like it?

  Strategic Writing (WRIT 2110) is a course that is as fundamental as CS1 or Calculus in my opinion. The course focused on research, academic rhetoric, and presentations in a flexible, engaging way.

• In what off-campus experiences have you participated?

  Volunteering for Capital Roots in Troy

• What is your favorite hangout on campus?

  Sage 5th floor lounge

• What is the most interesting place you've traveled?

  New Zealand during the pandemic !!!

• What brought you to RPI?

  Research opportunities, STEM focus, proximity from home

• What are your research interests?

  I am currently working in CogWorks Laboratory and on the Alzheimer’s Prevention Research Project.

• What on-campus activities are you involved with?

  Greek Life, Ski Team, Admissions Ambassador, Food Recovery Network, research

• What is the most interesting place you've traveled?

  New Zealand

• Why did you choose this program?

  1. Work of Dr. Gray. It adds to, and extends my previous work done in Germany for my MA in Psychology. There, I was working on integrative models of human cognition (Doerner: Psi-Theory), and human decision making / error in complex, dynamic environments. The focus there was on a large time-scale, spanning over months/years (e.g. decision making in politics, dynamics of ideologies). Here, I would get the opportunity to investigate the other part of the spectrum of human decision making in complex, dynamic environments, on a millisecond level.
  
  2. Gain professional experience in outside of Germany, experience US culture, and society.

• What are your research interests?

  Attention and human coordination in complex, dynamic environments, specifically in the domain of e-sports

• What is your favorite hangout on campus?

  Outside the back door of the Carnegie building. It is very rewarding get the sunset view over Troy / Hudson Valley after a day of work.

• What is the most interesting place you've traveled?

  Not sure how to use "interesting" to pick one. RPI is on the very top. To me, it is reminiscent of Hogwarts.

• What brought you to RPI?

  The GSAS Major and the Arch Program

• What is your favorite class at RPI; why do you like it?

  29133, Introduction to Game Storytelling is my favorite class so far! I have never had a creative writing course before so this is a new and exciting experience for me!

• Where is the most interesting place you have traveled?

  Uruguay

• What are you hobbies?

  Cooking; Robotics; Game design; Watching movies; Playing videogames

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