At the University of Minnesota, I will begin the M.S. in Statistics program while working in the DSMMA program to develop skills in data science. With this work, I hope to continue on my own research in decision theory, carrying this into a PhD program in Economics. To answer the inevitable challenges that will come with trying to build a full decision-making model, I will rely on a deeply inter-disciplinary foundation. This practice began at the University of Chicago where I received my B.S. in Mathematics, B.S. in Statistics, and B.A. in Economics, while spending summers at the research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Now, with the rigorous training I will receive at the U of M, I plan to build a diverse model of human decision-making that combines the theories of Economics, the practice of Statistics, and the backing of Mathematics