>> So I went to school at CSULB.
So this is my home campus.
And I went right away to mechanical engineering and then, through my experience
with me internship, decided that a background in materials would be helpful.
So Long Beach State offers a, they still do, an engineering option in materials engineering.
So I decided to do that and took about an extra semester or so worth of classes.
So I got my job with Northrop Grumman pretty much by interning previous summers.
So I had started interning in the summer right after my junior year of high school.
So I put in my work.
I tried to show that I was eager to learn.
And they asked me to return for the following summer.
And they kept asking me to return for the following summer.
One of the questions that I had knowing that so much of my summer time was going to be devoted
to the internship, I went to my undergraduate advisor and asked, hey, you know,
should I take classes and try to speed up my graduation or should I do this internship.
He said do the internship, get the experience, the classes you are on track to finish,
but this experience, this opportunity, you may not have later on.
So I just kept at it and then when I graduated, I said okay,
find me a home, where am I going to be.
And they said, okay, we got a place for you.