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My full name is Ariel Heiblum. I guess my full name is Ariel Israel Heiblum. I graduated in 2013 Martel College and a Rice tradition that has been most meaningful to me. Um The, I think the, the physical ones are fun because I get to do

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them whenever I bring, um, friends to campus, even after the fact, things like, um, running your fingers over the frog wall at the entrance to the Archi building, I forgot the name of the building. Um, and then the, the whisper wall, which is Herzstein. You like

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sit in the corner of it and then you whisper and the person on the opposite end can hear you. It's like the opening to the, the door that leads from Herzstein to the academic quad has these like alcoves in it that you can whisper into and

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somebody can sit in the other alcove and hear what you're whispering. Um So that's fun. Um And it's fun because like, it's this thing we would do when we like walked around campus at two in the morning, um, along with hedge jumping. So that's another one,

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hedge jumping. Um Yeah, that's a Rice tradition that has been meaningful to me because I've been able to keep it alive even after my time at Rice and then what traditions or advice would you most like to share with the next generation of owls? Um hm

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hm hm hm. Let me think. Um, it seems silly to say, enjoy your time. But yeah, like, obviously I'm at homecoming at my 10 year anniversary. So I'm nostalgic. I would definitely say to everyone that they should enjoy their time at Rice. Um But more than

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that, my advice would be to like meet a lot of people. Um I ended up marrying my friend who I met at Rice. So meet a lot of people. Um, and cherish the, the friendships and acquaintances you make also take advantage of all of the opportunities

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that are available. This is such a general advice though. What's, what's a some good advice I would give? Um So I ended up getting my most recent job at something that is totally unrelated to my major, to any degree that I have because the company I

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was applying to had a Rice alum and I didn't know her, but I messaged her anyways and I said, hey, we were at Rice at about the same time. You can, I work at your, at your company and she said yes. So my advice is meet

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a lot of people um and build a network