>> I attended California State University Long Beach,
I studied interpersonal communication studies and got my bachelor's in that degree.
You know, to be honest with you, I first came in as a psychology major because I wanted
to be a high school counselor, and I found psychology just to be a little -
I don't want to say boring, but just wasn't me.
And so, then I took sociology class and said okay, maybe I like sociology.
And then I went into sociology, and I was like oh, this isn't me either.
And then I took a public speaking class and I was like oh,
this just feels right and it feels natural.
You know, and the fact that, you know, with your communication degree,
you can go in many different avenues and it just stuck.
Right after graduating, I had decided that I wanted to get my graduate degree,
so I attended the University of [inaudible] got my MBA marketing and luckily,
I had landed a job two months right after I graduated.
So, everything just kind of fell into place because that was part
of the reason why I thought I felt like I of wanted to go to graduate school because I was
like oh, my gosh, [inaudible] something to do, I have to enhance my skills some kind of way
and luckily, an old colleague of mine recommended me for this job.
And everything just fell into place.