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Rayyan was working 30 hour weeks while in High School. Outside of that, Rayyan was more likely to be playing basketball or video games.

Then in his senior year he took some “sciency” classes, as he calls it, and did well and liked them! He felt Science might be his thing.

Rayyan joins our podcast to share his UC Riverside undergraduate experience, UG Research, Winning the Goldwater Scholarship, Pursuing in Bioengineering, and his Advice for High Schoolers.

In particular, we discuss the following with him: 

• Overall Undergraduate Experience
• UG Research in Tissue Engineering
• The Goldwater Scholarship
• Bioengineering Major
• Advice to High Schoolers

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Introduction to Rayyan Ayoub, UCR []
• Hi Fives - Podcast Highlights []
• Overall Experience at UCR []
• Why UCR? []
• High School Interests []
• Research Interest []
• Starting UG Research []
• The Research []
• Impact of Research []
• Goldwater Scholarship []
• The GW Difference []
• Challenges in School []
• What’s Next? []
• Majoring in Bioengineering []
• Advice for High Schoolers []
• Memories []

Our Guests: Rayyan Ayoub is a Goldwater Scholar who is studying Bioengineering at the University of California Riverside.

Memorable Quote: “If work is play, no one can beat you.” Rayyan Ayoub.

Episode Transcript: Please visit Episode’s Transcript.

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