 I grew up in Bessemer, Alabama. I went to McIdory High School, now famous for Bo Jackson. But when I was there, all of us were mostly Alabama fans and my parents were huge Bear Bryant fans. Four years from now, I will be walking out here in National Champion. And I'll tell you this, I expect nothing less. So I grew up from the time I can remember watching anything on television or hearing anything on the radio. It was all about Alabama football. Sunday mornings we would sit and watch the Bear Bryant show. And every week we would look forward to hearing the replay of the game and then hearing Bear Bryant talk about it. So there was never any question about where I was going to go to school. It was certainly the University of Alabama. I had started in high school playing French horn and was the first person from my high school to make all states. So I thought I was really good at French horn. And when I got to the University, I thought I was going to major in music. Then I went into mineral engineering. And in mineral engineering I had an opportunity later in that course to go out on a drilling rig. And when I got to the drilling rig, they were pulling the equipment out. It was so amazing and so exciting that that's what shaped my view of what I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to go into the oil industry and be a petroleum engineer. Professor Thomas Simpson, he was actually a mining engineer and professor. I was early on in my engineering career there. I was probably early in second year. And he came to me and told me about a scholarship and encouraged me to apply. I would have never thought about it. I would have never known about it. But he encouraged me. He said, Namiki, you have to go apply for this. You have an opportunity. I didn't imagine that I did because it was an academic scholarship. And he said, you got to fill out the paperwork, go do it. You've got an opportunity and a chance for this. And so I did. I received a scholarship, which was very fortunate for us because our family, we were struggling to be middle class, so my parents really appreciated the help of the funds. I remember taking books over to the basketball games and trying to study while the basketball game was in progress. And that never worked well. I remember going to tennis matches and watching with my books. But the one thing I never took books to is I never took books to the football games because those were too intense and too important for me. My first two years, I stayed in the marching band and the concert band. So I got to go to all the football games with a band. So it was a great experience. And graduating from the University of Alabama did another thing for me is it instilled in me a passion to win. And I think a lot of Alabama graduates have that. And I look for that now in employees. It's that passion to be successful. That passion to help your team succeed. The passion to just win. And I took that with me throughout my whole career and it still works for me today.