I actually applied 
to ANU's medical science program,
and on the day of enrolment,
I found out about the PhB program.
I realized that it would offer me
so much more flexibility
in terms of course choices.
And my ATAR was sufficient, 
so I decided to make the transfer.
I did the National
Youth Science Forum,
and I did another science camp called
the International Science School.
And through those programs
I found the PhB.
I found out about the PhB
program through my cousin,
who has now started his
Honours year with the PhB
and he felt it was a really fun degree.
The main thing
that attracted me to the PhB
was firstly the flexibility, 
and also just the research projects,
which looked like really
amazing experiences.
The ability to interact 
with world class researches
and participate in many
projects that are going on,
current issues in
science and things.
I found that very fascinating.
I never wanted to do like a
vocational undergraduate degree.
I see undergraduate course
is more of a chance
to just sort of further develop
critical thinking and
analytical thinking skills.
Pump!
It's pumping sodium out!
You're leaking too fast.
if you leak slowly 
and I pump fast. right?
Right, leak slowly.
Leak slowly.
I'm very interested in
everything to do with medical research.
All areas of medical science,
neuroscience, parasitology, all that.
Chemistry.
And I'll probably do a little bit
of environmental science as well.
I do have interest
in sustainability
and natural resource management.
I definitely see
myself as someone
who would work in a laboratory
in genetics.
Because you'd probably
be finding out new things,
for such a long time, too.
Once you sort of crack some of
the things that are going on there,
it'll tell you why
we're formed like this
and sure they might
know some of that,
but I don't know it yet,
so I wanna find out.
Yeah.
I'm surprised at
the wide range of people
this course has attracted.
Everyone has that common interest
of wanting to work hard at science,
and yeah, 
and Kioloa is a nice place.
I've noticed a lot of people
here are interested in many things.
So for me,
I would like to branch out into
maybe International Relations
and a bit of Macroeconomics.
I'm very science focused,
but I also like to do
language subjects as well.
And during high school
I took Art History as well.
So maybe I will carry on doing
that throughout the PhB program.
I'm actually
a runner, so, like,
I train seventy Ks a week, normally.
Unfortunately I've never
quite made it to nationals level,
so that'll be the goal in this year,
to get to nationals cross-country.
The atmosphere is
just really incredibly relaxed here,
That's one thing that
I found pretty surprising.
And also just the fact that second year
students were getting up and talking
and looked like they'd done
amazing amount of work.
Last night after
our talk was a real indication
of how easy it is to get along
with other people
who have the same interests as you.
It's pretty chill.
I'm glad we're not just a whole
bunch of awkward nerds,
and it's very lively and
communal and everything.
I expected to find
a lot of very smart kids
who weren't necessarily
that friendly or very social
in this program.
But I was really surprised at how
friendly and outgoing everybody was.
And how inviting and
welcoming everyone was.
Well, I saw kangaroos
for the first time.
Down here, the other day.
That was very surprising.
So, I don't wanna leave.
I just wanna keep on staying here.
So many things are just
based on science.
And science defines so many things.
And I think it is really, really great
to be able to get involved in science
and sort of explore so many
different aspects of life through it.
