Initially my career path from day one since I'm in middle school was to be an actor slash writer slash producer.
That's what I wanted to do. My cousin and I were trying to write movies. I wrote a couple plays and stuff that were terrible, but I wrote plays and stuff.
I got involved in music a lot and I was into making music and stuff like that. All that stuff was there.
But then I think it was in high school where I started to realize that elections mattered
and people that got elected and what they did was very important and that we have a responsibility to pay attention to that.
I also knew that I liked education and I thought education was the most important issue in our country,
and at that point I figured NC State has a program-at the time-it had a program in political science
and you could get a concentration in education and be a member of the college of humanities and social sciences,
so I thought that was fantastic.
Fortunately I was able to get the Teaching Fellows scholarship and so that helped push my decision a little bit more,
and State was the type of school that, you know, I wanted to experience that, and it wasn't-.
Of course it's not considered as lofty of a school as Carolina when it comes to aspirations in political science
and that area but I also knew NC State was a school that I felt comfortable in
and I knew that my major, I could do a lot with the political science, I could do a lot with education,
and the education program here, especially through Teaching Fellows, was fantastic, so that helped make my decision.