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Hello Everyone!

My name is Benjamin Morse, I come from Philadelphia, and I am a fourth year student going for a degree in Finance with a minor in Management Information Systems here at The one-and-only University of Texas at Austin.

I come from a family of five wonderful people. I have two loving parents, an older sister, and a twin brother. When we were children, my siblings and I were inseparable. We spent our days playing in our back yard, building forts out of everything that we could get our hands on, traveling to distant lands on our “magical” green couch, and making Oscar-worthy movies with our friends. No matter what we were doing, our parents always encouraged our imagination and creativity.

In high school I did everything that I possibly could. Whether it was running over hurdles for the track team, or playing “Ripper the skater dude” in the drama club’s performance of High School Musical, I wanted to do it. Much of this drive was due to my love of meeting new people and working with them to accomplish something amazing.

Now that I have left the City of Brotherly Love and entered the Heart of Texas, it’s like I’m standing in front of an ocean of incredible new and interesting experiences. All I have to do is dive in and see where the current takes me.

Why I Ride

I attended Sunday school every week for almost my entire life before going to college. In the summer before my sophomore year, one of the men who led my class found out that he had a brain tumor. He died a few days later due to complications during surgery. His name was Matt Miller. He was a role model, a leader, a husband, and a father. He was the kind of man who could see light in every situation. He included everyone and was always the first to laugh. He was my friend.

That was my first experience in which cancer became real to me. It was the first time that I had ever seen the devastating effects of cancer firsthand. Because of this event, and many others that affected me and those around me, I ride for anyone who has ever been affected by cancer in any way. I ride for those who are fighting. I ride for the people who need someone to fight for them. I ride for my father, who has fought with skin cancer ever since I can remember. I ride for his mother, who has fought with the same thing. I ride for my mother’s mother, who fought with colon cancer at the age of 85 and won. I ride for Matt Miller, who will be remembered dearly by all who knew him. I ride for hope, strength, and courage when facing unimaginable obstacles. I ride for life.