 My first small step in getting here to Purdue was participating in the Minority Engineering Program, which was a summer program, I believe it's maybe it was for a week, right after high school. But I got a chance to come down, experience Purdue, walk the campus, but more so meet other like-minded individuals who had a strong interest in math and science. And for me, that was major because I felt no longer alone. You know, college didn't scare me as much. And I knew that I was going to be coming back in the fall and seeing some friends that I had met during the course of the summer. So that was my first small step. Second small step was actually getting through Purdue and the industrial engineering curriculum, which was very tough. But I had an opportunity to go to graduate school. So here was another step. I'm going to tell you, I thought after leaving Purdue, I was done with engineering. I could have sworn I was going to be done with it. But I ended up getting a scholarship or a fellowship to go to graduate school. And I got a degree in engineering management. I attended University of Missouri, Rala, and learned the business side of engineering. So I always tell people I went to a business school that was inside of an engineering school. That landed me with my third step, my third small step, which was my first real job, which was with General Mills in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a quality engineer. So I packed up all my belongings and moved to the cold north in Minneapolis, met some new people, but really learned how to function in a corporate or a professional world, which is very different from undergraduate life. But I did well and stayed in corporate. And my big leap, you know, after working many, many years in corporate, my big leap was literally leaving engineering, believe it or not. I totally switched careers and pursued a career in nutrition, believe it or not. Christy Dotson, BS industrial engineering, 1989, and I am a Purdue engineer.