>> I went to Pomona College, I studied sociology and music, and why?
Let's see.
Originally, I thought I wanted to be either a music journalist or a professor of music
or ethnomusicology and then I came
across sociology my freshman year and fell in love with it.
So changed paths and decided I wanted to be a professor of sociology.
So in general, I always felt I would be in academia some way
and that's kind of why I studied those areas.
Before my senior year, I planned on going into a PhD program for sociology,
and then my senior year, I realized let me take a year and try something else
to make sure I want to go back to that because that's a pretty long-term commitment.
So I worked at a public policy research firm called Mathematica for a year after graduating.
Google actually recruited me.
I sent out, I think I completed an application back in senior year and didn't hear anything
for a while, so didn't really pay much mind to it.
And then about a year later while I was at Mathematica,
a recruiter from the education team reached out.