Subscribe to Receive Venkat’s Weekly Newsletter Growing up, Deniz was interested in Science. He enjoyed AP classes in High School. He was on the robotics team for 8 years, and went to summer STEM camps. When COVID happened Deniz cold emailed a Prof in Dept of Neuroscience in Virginia Tech to do research. Shortly thereafter, Deniz was doing cognitive tests on mice, with touchscreen devices! Deniz joins our podcast to share his University of Virginia undergraduate experience, Interest in Neuroscience, UG Research, Winning the Goldwater Scholarship, Majoring in Neuroscience and CS, and his Advice for High Schoolers. In particular, we discuss the following with him:  Overall UVA Experience UG Research The Goldwater Scholarship Neuroscience and Computer Science Major Advice to High Schoolers Topics discussed in this episode: Introduction to Deniz Olgun, UVA [] Hi Fives - Podcast Highlights [] Overall Experience at UVA [] Why UVA? [] High School Interests [] Neuroscience Research [] Transition to UVA [] Academics & Profs [] Starting UG Research [] Was Research Intentional? [] Research Details [] Research Outcomes [] Impact of Research [] Why Goldwater Scholarship? [] Winning the GW Scholarship [] The Goldwater Scholarship Difference [] Broadening the Major [] Helping with Earthquake in Turkey [] Advice for High Schoolers [] Memories [] Our Guests: Deniz Olgun is a Goldwater Scholar, who is studying Neuroscience and Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Memorable Quote: “What you major in is, of course, important, but more important is your flexibility in transitioning and kind of just general thinking skills, right? And how fast can you get up to deal with something that's hard? How well can you identify new opportunities? And then how can you learn to like, really just ask good questions and think critically? ” Deniz Olgun. Episode Transcript: Please visit Episode’s Transcript. Similar Episodes: College Experiences , UG Research Calls-to-action: Follow us on Instagram. To Ask the Guest a question, or to comment on this episode, email podcast@almamatters.io. Subscribe or Follow our podcasts wherever you get your podcasts.