- I think what I love about
CSU for what I'm studying
is the opportunity to take
things to the next level.
People want to help you succeed
and want to help you move up,
and I have greatly benefited
from those connections at CSU,
getting me internships other places,
internships in my field,
working with people who are really doing
what I wanna be doing.
I think a lot of people
are really creeped out
by human remains and by
working with dead bodies
and that kind of stuff.
It does not bother me at all.
I think it does give
meaning to life after death.
The fact that we have all these
resources here that I'm able
to look at human skulls,
look at variation
between different humans,
between different species of Homo.
We have those kinds of tangible evidence
that I can come in here,
I can pick up skulls.
I can can set them down.
I can look at them and compare them.
And so to have that kind
of relatable material here
and available to me is
it's really amazing.
Today, especially in science heavy fields,
there is really a lack of
understanding of culture
and how it impacts science and biology.
And I think that our department
does a really exceptional
job of creating scientists
who have holistic approaches
to what it means to be human.
I have had such incredible mentors
through this college
and through the department.
It's just invaluable.
I don't know who I would be as a person
if I had gone a different
way at this point,
if I hadn't met these people.
I feel so lucky.
I feel so lucky.
(uplifting gentle music)
