>> I knew that I wanted to be in a small liberal arts environment.
I went to a very small high school in Los Angeles that was very academics
and also liberal arts focused and I did very well there.
And so I thought that that is probably the right environment for me for college.
And even though I did get into some much larger schools that were great in their own right,
once I got to Pomona's campus, I knew this was the place for me.
I took a lot of different classes freshman year.
I wasn't really sure exactly what I wanted to do and I thought maybe pre-med was an option
because I did have an interest in health care.
But that quickly was off the table and instead I fell into sociology.
I loved it so much that I front-loaded all of those courses.
And by the end of sophomore year, I had pretty much taken all of the courses except
for the capstone classes that I couldn't take until being an upperclassman.
I went to my college officer, college counseling officer and asked, "What do I do now?
I'm almost done with my degree."
And she recommended that I look into public policy as a complimentary study.
And so I ended up getting a degree in public policy and sociology.