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Matt is a fourth year undergraduate at the Pennsylvania State University’s Schreyer Honors College, which has given him the opportunity to study at the National University of Singapore. He double honors majors in mathematics: applied analysis option, and Chinese, where he will be the first student to receive a Bachelors degree in Chinese from PSU.

Matt is focused and determined. He pushes himself academically to prepare himself for his ultimate career goal – working towards sustainable development at the international level. At NUS, he is becoming an active member in Energy Carta, an organization that takes a pragmatic approach in solving/promoting energy issues. In high school, he had focused on sports as well as academics, and was selected as one of his region's Student Athlete MVP's as a result of his efforts in ice hockey, fencing team, rifle team, cross country and track.

He is versatile and responsible. He has studied at five universities in three countries. This has helped him learn and foster international cooperation. His international experiences, from working on team research projects to traveling alone, have made him a global citizen. When serving as an intern for Barack Obama’s Campaign for Change, Matt put in long hours to help organize and run a field office. He learned to interact and build working relationships with people from all age groups, ethnicities, and levels of social strata. Matt pushed his comfort zone by volunteering daily for face-to-face persuasion, and through this developed his perception of the fabric of America, and what it means to be American.

Matt is also a teacher. He has a sustained track record of taking students from D’s to the top in their class.


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