i have known cortlan wickliff since he was just 10 years old. at 15, entered rice university to become the youngest in one field, and he is about to get his law degree in a matter of weeks from harvard. me why, hedo not ask is going back to texas in them to get a ph.d. in engineering. i welcome my young friend to this program. first of all, congratulations. >> thank you. and thank you for having me. tavis: it has been quite a journey for me to have met you when you were 10 and follow you all of these years. on may 30, your graduation. i thought i could get you to come out here and say congratulations here. it is clear, a degree from rice, our board law, going back to get the ph.d. in engineering. how did that happen to you? >> well, for me, it has always been about bowls. one of the goals i set for myself early on is i wanted to own and start a biomedical company, and so when i was figuring out what that have looked like, my mom sat me down and said, "other people you have done that to grow and i thought that was not enough. a ph.d., that is goo

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