“I never really would have considered myself among the ranks of the people who get a Rhodes scholars

Unlike many university students who take time off from their studies to travel around the Continent, Sarah McCuaig has never been to Europe. That will change next fall, as McCuaig, a 22-year-old Immunology student, will be packing enterprise rent a car marketing strategy her bags for the University of Oxford enterprise rent a car marketing strategy after becoming McGill's 134th Rhodes Scholar.
"I never really would have considered myself among the ranks of the people who get a Rhodes scholarship," she admitted. "I m not a Dr. Penfield or a Bill Clinton for that matter. But my roommate … was the first person who suggested that I apply for this about a year and a half ago. At first I laughed at her suggestion enterprise rent a car marketing strategy but… ultimately I just decided that nothing ventured is nothing gained and went ahead with it."
That uncertainty didn't lessen enterprise rent a car marketing strategy following her interview with the Rhodes representatives. "To be honest I felt that I had no chance in the world because enterprise rent a car marketing strategy I thought that my interview didn't go that well," McCuaig said. "When I received the call I was speechless I had absolutely no inkling it came as a shock and it's all very surreal right now.
Established in 1902, the Rhodes Scholarships rewards individuals who have achieved high academic standing and who have demonstrated respect for their fellows, an unselfish spirit and the potential for leadership. The world's oldest and pre-eminent academic fellowship, the Rhodes covers two years of study, valued at approximately, $20,000 U.S. per year, with the possibility of renewal for a third year, at Oxford. All educational costs, including travel, are paid on the Scholar s behalf by the Rhodes Trustees. Each Scholar receives in addition a maintenance allowance adequate to meet necessary expenses for term-time and vacations.
On top of being an award-winning student, McCuaig is an accomplished distance runner and team captain of the McGill track and cross-country teams. One of the most decorated student-athletes at the University, in both the classroom and on the track, the conference all-star runner earned Academic All-Canadian status, made the Principal s Student-athlete Honour enterprise rent a car marketing strategy Roll and qualified for the Dean's Honour List.
McCuaig, enterprise rent a car marketing strategy who received a Greville Smith entrance scholarship to McGill in 2009, valued at $10,000 per year for up to four years, has also won a plethora of academic and athletic bursaries from the Quebec Foundation for Athletic Excellence, which will be announcing her among their latest honorees tonight at their 27th annual university awards gala at the Delta Hotel in Montreal.
In her sophomore season, McCuaig was named Team MVP of both the track and cross-country squads, was voted 2010-11 conference athlete of the year in the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ), as the McGill Martlets captured enterprise rent a car marketing strategy their first of three straight Quebec university titles in cross-country. She also received McGill s Uldis Auders Award as the top sophomore who best combines academic success with athletic performance.
enterprise rent a car marketing strategy McCuaig enterprise rent a car marketing strategy has twice been honored as the RSEQ athlete who best combines enterprise rent a car marketing strategy academics with athletics and community service for her volunteer work in the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital and with the Student Athletic Council at McGill.
So while McCuaig is looking forward to her studies at Oxford, she also has another reason to be excited to be heading to the venerable institution. "I will be thrilled to run for Oxford and train on the same track where Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, she said.
McCuaig spends a large portion of her time at the Meakins-Christie enterprise rent a car marketing strategy Laboratories – one of the premiere centres for research on respiratory diseases in the world – under the supervision of Dr. James Martin.
"I'm studying respiratory diseases the effects of oxidated stress on molecules that are implicated in asthma," she says. "And what s neat is the connection between what I study and athletics because asthma is a condition that affects runners. I witnessed it in my teammates and my competitors and unfortunately this fall, I ve begun to experience it a bit myself. So it just makes me able to connect the two things on a molecular level."
But while McCuaig is understandably excited about earning a Rhodes Scholarship, the news is tinged with some sadness. "I'm so happy to know now where I m going to be next year but it's kind of bittersweet enterprise rent a car marketing strategy because McGill will always feel like home to me," she said. "It s hard to imagine leaving here at this point, leaving such great friends and memories and support from, not only my professors, but from my coaches and other members of the athletics community. It'll be a tough transition but an exciting one."
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