>> So I knew that I wanted to be in the FBI for a really long time.
I can't pin exactly.
It was probably my sophomore year in college where something about the FBI just drew me
to that place as an organization and it was at that moment where because I had made
that conscious decision I was going to put in place personal decisions
that would get me to where I needed to go.
That meant watching what I was doing socially, with who and where I was,
but really most important for me was the academics.
I knew that I needed to make sure that my GPA was as top as I could get it.
Both undergrad and graduate school I went to Penn State University.
And it's been an excellent experience for me.
So for my undergraduate degree I chose just a major of science and that's
because I knew I loved science, but at that time I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do
with that science knowledge and that love of science.
It wasn't until I had an internship through Penn State University's coop program at the FBI
where I really began to focus in on how I wanted to apply my love
of science and my love of biology.
And it was my internship at the FBI that I realized that I then wanted
to pursue the application of biology to forensics.
And amazingly at the same time that I was ready to graduate
as an undergrad the Penn State University was just developing its forensic science program.
And so I became one of -- Actually I became the first graduated class
from the Penn State graduate program in forensic science.