Name: Ravi Patel Hometown: Monroe, WI Major: Biological Sciences College/University: University of Notre Dame Scientific interests: Complementary and alternative medicine, cancer biology, Vitamin D, antioxidants, sociobiology, and the Intellectuals Non-scientific interests: Tennis, basketball, football, reading, water, green tea, purging emotion including love Highlights of summer: Going to Cedar Point(***Millenium Force was AWESOME***), working in Galvin at 3 am, packing, August 5th, saying good-bye Parting thoughts or advice to 2007 REU: Science is about individual people, not groups.  Be a social coordinator so you don't have to do too much work.  Work in lab on the weekends to avoid doing things with fellow REU students.  Take everything I wrote with a grain of salt, although everything above has some truth to it.