{"id":1711,"date":"2018-05-23T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T18:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:58:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T18:58:34","slug":"student-spotlight-on-rachael-shudde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/student-spotlight-on-rachael-shudde\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight on Rachael Shudde"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachael Shudde (’18) is a recent May graduate who majored in computer science and math from Ovalo, TX. During her time at ACU, Rachael was involved with Mu Sigma, the Honors College, Ko Jo Kai social club, worked as a research assistant, interned in D.C., interned with NASA, and much more. After graduating in May, Rachael will be attending Texas A&M to earn her masters in statistics and will be working with Lockheed Martin as a data scientist and analyst while at school. \u201cStatistics is a combination of everything I like,\u201d said Rachael. \u201cI can work with people, use my computer science and data skills, and help explain problems.\u201d Rachael is particularly excited to attend Texas A&M for graduate school because of their emphasis on astrostatistics and telescopes around the world that yield interesting data. At Lockheed Martin, Rachael is most excited to work on real-world applications of her skills. \u201cIt\u2019s very different to solve problems in an environment where someone does not have the answers,\u201d she noted. \u201cIt\u2019s also very exciting to work on problems that do not have answers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rachael Shudde<\/p><\/div>\n

Rachael feels that ACU has prepared her well and the opportunities that she was able to take advantage of are one-of-a-kind. Especially in her areas of study, a lot of Rachael\u2019s work was self-involved and required her to research and actively learn. She learned to establish what she does not know and make a plan to find the answer. Rachael\u2019s love for learning, work ethic, and motivation from her teachers helped her achieve all that she has. However, the biggest impact ACU had on Rachael was not in the academic sphere. \u201cI gained a lot of confidence in myself,\u201d said Rachael. \u201cBecause of the faculty and mentors I have encountered, I am confident in who I am and my abilities and very happy with where I am at.\u201d Rachael\u2019s faculty, staff, and peers have all played instrumental roles in her life. Getting involved with her department allowed Rachael to meet awesome people and friends and helped create close relationships with the faculty. \u201cThe personal relationships I\u2019ve built here are amazing and so special to ACU,\u201d she said \u201cIt is visible how much the professors care.\u201d While Rachael is excited for the future and what lies beyond graduation, she will also miss ACU where she has grown and felt so blessed and ACU will certainly miss her.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rachael Shudde (’18) is a recent May graduate who majored in computer science and math from Ovalo, TX. During her time at ACU, Rachael was involved with Mu Sigma, the Honors College, Ko Jo Kai social club, worked as a research assistant, interned in D.C., interned with NASA, and much more. After graduating in May, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,3057,2750,1062,467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-computer-science","category-current-students","category-outcomes","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}