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The summer I spent in the RUSIS 2004 program was
valuable and memorable. There I met my wonderful
group-mates and classmates who were of similar
academic interests but diverse cultural backgrounds,
and some of whom I made good friends with afterwards.
Not only were the RUSIS students granted a series of
neat lectures (taught by Prof. Rojo) on a collection
of important and fundamental concepts of probability
and statistics, the program also invited speakers of a
broad range of backgrounds to talk about how
statistics was combined with computer technology and
mathematics to advance modern sciences. Best of all,
you would get exposures to both the Bayesian and the
Frequentist approaches by just spending one summer
here! In addition, the RUSIS 04 program introduced us
to a good deal of useful information about the current
resources (such as available funding for students to
travel to statistics conferences,) that were
accessible to students who were interested in
statistics. This program shifted my mind from
applying to Master programs to Ph. D programs in
statistics; it opened my eye to see how big the world
outside of my classroom was, as well as how much
support I could get to overcome the possible
challenges. The only warning I would give to the
new comers of the program is that Texas is very hot
and humid, so make sure to keep a tube of sunblock and
an umbrella in your luggage! Despite the weather,
RUSIS is one of the best places an undergrad could go
for her/his summer!
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