>> So, when I first enrolled at University of Maryland I thought I wanted to be a dentist.
So, I actually was a life sciences-- in the life sciences major, actually I was a biology major.
So, I did that for the first couple of years and chemistry was quite challenging, right?
So, in order for me to try to finish in what I thought was on time, right,
in four years I had a very heavy course load.
And that happens to you know a lot of freshman coming in with you know certain majors.
So, you know, working through that and really as I go--
going through those classes not really feeling like I really hit my niche,
really found something that was very interesting,
more so thinking that these are the classes I need to do to get to where I want to go,
but not necessarily enjoying the classes that I was taking at that time kind
of made me do a course correction.
And so I took a psychology course as an elective and I fell in love with the course and wanted
to take more courses in psychology and more courses and ultimately ended
up changing my major to psychology.
And I think that was one of the best decisions
and I know folks are probably thinking psychology,
working for IBM which is an IT services company.
How does that align?
But it certainly had been very valuable in my work with being customer facing, absolutely.