My first semester here I had a dirt bike accident and it resulted in two surgeries within a
year's time. And because of that I couldn't -- I couldn't practice on my machine, my stenograph
machine. So what I did was instead of wasting semesters waiting to heal, I just took some
academics that I knew that I would need to take at some point just to get them out of
the way. And so, you know, I -- I see obstacles as not something that you necessarily need
to get over, but you have to be able to find a way around them. And, you know, whether
it's by figuring it out yourself or asking others, you know, how do I get around this,
you just do whatever you need to do to get where you want to be.
You know, just coming -- just coming from high school, you know, I wasn't satisfied,
you know, with what I did. And I guess that the big step was what I had to overcome is
saying, "Okay. I'm going to move down to California. I'm going to leave Seattle, what happened
in high school behind me, and I'm going to move forward, progress from there on out."
I think being that I was from one of the military and I haven't been in the school environment
since high school, I had to readjust back to the demands of -- um -- school as far as
like scheduling -- um -- planning my courses, what courses to take, and -- um -- basically
being a student again. Like, I have to readjust with -- rather than going to work and then
coming home and then that's it. I have to come home study, do homework, whatever it
may be.