>> So it's kind of funny because I feel
like I have a literal crossroads story about how my career came to be.
When I was an undergraduate student I went here to Rutgers, and I was a journalism major,
and my dream was to be -- and it still is a little bit of a dream --
to be a sideline reporter for like Monday Night Football,
because I just love sports, and I really like journalism.
So I had an internship interview -- not with football --
with the United States Golf Association.
I know that sounds weird, but I like golf.
And I really was interested in doing something related to sports journalism.
The interview went well, or so I thought, and I didn't end up getting that position,
and that very day I went to my advisor, who I was working with at Rutgers.
She was helping me plan New Student Orientation and she offered me an internship working
in the office and working with new students.
So at that moment I kind of felt like I was at this actual crossroads,
I could either keep going and looking for more journalism internships,
or I already knew that I was enjoying what I was doing, working with students,
so I kind of decided to take that path.
And then that really I mean, just snowballed.
I felt lucky enough to find something that I really enjoyed doing when I was in college
and then talking to the advisors that I worked with, saying, you can do this for a living?
You can just work with college students all day -- and then decided to go into the field,
which requires for most people in Student Affairs, a Master's degree.
So I went to a few different programs and I ended up at New York University
and got my Master's there, which was a really fun experience getting to be in the city
and I actually worked at Fordham University for an internship and Montclair State University
for an internship, so getting experiences working
at all different kinds of institutions was pretty cool.