Not to do an internship or to study abroad — but to be a ninja warrior.

Bell is the winner of the first G4 American Ninja Challenge and served as the U.S. representative at G4’s Ninja Warrior in Tokyo.

Ninja Warrior is a popular game show in Japan, where contestants compete in an obstacle course, trying not to fall in order to make it to the next round, Bell said.

Bell, along with other G4 hopefuls, sent in a video documenting his skills.

After the videos were narrowed down to 10, he was picked as one of three Americans to compete in Los Angeles for a chance to go to Japan.

Bell won the challenge — based on a judgment of speed, strength and endurance — and was sent to Japan for two weeks.

Along with competing in an obstacle course, Bell was part of a documentary that told of his experience as an American going to Japan.

The G4 network came to Bell’s apartment to film and interview him and his friends, said Bell’s roommate, general management senior Ken Robbins.

“That’s when we finally realized this is kind of a big deal,” Robbins said. “It didn’t really hit us until then.”

Bell not only competed and made a documentary, he experienced something in Japan that’s not too typical in the U.S. — a monsoon.

“My mom was calling me — she was freaking out,” he said. “But everybody there was just used to it.”

Monsoons weren’t his biggest worry, though.

Bell said he was disappointed that he had to drop a semester’s worth of classes in order to make the trip.

“It was a chance of a lifetime, so I don’t feel too awful,” he said. “But now I have to push off graduating for a half of a year.”

Bell hasn’t decided if he will continue along the ninja route but said there is a possibility they will bring him back for a second show.

“There’s got to be something I can do with it,” he said. “I just haven’t really figured out what it is yet.”