 I grew up in a small town in North Alabama called Fife. I graduated high school, went to a junior college basically because I didn't have a plan to come to Alabama. After a year in junior college, I realized I wanted to study at a four-year institution and pretty easy choice to come to Alabama. When I arrived at the University of Alabama, I guess I would say my life experiences were such that they were insufficient that I could imagine the possibilities and the opportunities I've had since then. I think I came here as a fairly naive small town kid who was just limited by my own life experiences at the time, which were not all that robust, if you will, when you think about it in today's very global world that we live in. Along the way, somewhere I grew up, I guess, and I transformed into a young man that had self-confidence, had skill set, and I think most importantly, the courage, and I got over whatever anxiety I had pretty quickly, and how to get into the groove and understand what college life was all about.