Rice University

I came to Rice knowing I wanted to build things, but not much else. Four years of exploring — statistics depth, internships in production systems, a robotics course that stuck — showed me what actually resonates. The small size meant I could sit in a professor's office or grab lunch with someone I just met and actually have a conversation.

That freedom to explore without pressure to optimize changed how I think about problems. I learned statistics because inference was interesting. I took a lot of great electives.

Rice didn't make me technical — the work did. But it gave me the space to figure out what I actually cared about, and that space was everything.

Highlights:

• Mr. Sid 2023
• Studied abroad at the University of Edinburgh
• I got good at salsa