>> My undergraduate degree is in biology.
I had decided when I was very little I was either going to become a marine biologist
or a hair stylist and as I went through high school I decided on marine biologist and I went
to college and I got my undergraduate degree in biology from St. Mary's College of Maryland
and then I looked at graduate school
and my grades had always been good but they weren't stellar.
I wasn't a 4.0 student and so it didn't look like graduate school was a good thing for me
to do and so I was working at the time for an independent contractor for the Navy
and one random point in time my boss gave me a research project where I just had
to basically go out and find the research and collect it for someone.
I didn't have to do anything with it.
I just had to collect it and I loved it.
I stayed late every day.
I came early every morning.
I loved it and I realized how much I liked the aspect, the actual physical aspect of research,
that hunt, that kind of puzzle and my mom is an academic librarian.
My aunt is an academic librarian and so I thought to myself well I probably will have
to acknowledge the fact that even though you never want to do what your parents do I'm going
to follow in her footsteps anyway and so I called her up and said,
"How do you get into library school?"
And she said, "You have to be breathing."
And I said, "I bet you I can do that then."
And I applied and I was accepted and I got a 4.0 and it was fun and I loved it
and because I had the science background I had a nice choice of places to apply
to when I was done and so I've been here ever since and my job duties have increased
since I've stayed and I've liked it so much and there's so much to do here.
It's such a great school to work at that I just stayed.