>> My dad, when he was younger, he moved to Saudi Arabia from India.
There's a huge community of Indians and usually, well, Southeast Asians, Pakistanis,
Bangladeshians, Indians that live in Saudi Arabia.
And I went to an all Indian school.
It's, I think it's the second largest high school in the world, it's about 10,000 students,
and our main focus is engineering, math, science, biology and computer science
and other, economics and all that.
So after I finished my high school my dad decided that I was going to come to the U.S.,
and graciously he offered to pay for my education.
I just said, okay, you know?
He wanted me to do electrical engineering, and I was hesitant,
I wanted to do aerospace as just my fascination of jets.
And he is an electrical engineer, electrical engineering runs in my family.
My sister is one, my cousin is one, my uncle is one, so it's big, it's big in our family.
And he kind of -- kind of pushed me
in the electrical engineering way, and he said experience it first.
And I did, and I'm so glad I did that.
I would not -- I would not exchange it for anything else.
So I came to Penn State in 2005 as an international student from Saudi Arabia,
decided to pick electrical engineering.
That was not really a decision by myself, but by my father, and I'm glad he did that.
And I graduated in December 2008 with a major degree in electrical engineering
and minor in mathematics applications.