>> So I kind of had a different kind of transition.
So I studied at Pomona College, and I was actually a physics major with an option
in astronomy, and at Pomona, I studied abroad in Nepal.
I went to try out a very different kind of study abroad experience
and one where I was immersed in the culture.
So that was my first time in Asia, and I was working, for the independent study portion,
I was living with Buddhist nuns in the mountains, and it was very formative,
and actually, I was very lucky to have a great advisor in the physics department,
who was interested in archaeoastronomy.
He was particularly interested in Native American understanding of the universe.
So this was a great way to combine my interests in astronomy and physics with more
of an ethnographic anthropology interest.
So for my physics senior thesis, I went to the Southwest U.S. and studied this and some
of the ruins and did my thesis on that.
So from there, I transitioned into more of a focus on international affairs, anthropology.