I started at Morehead State University as an accounting major with law school visions in my head. At the time, business majors were not required to take calculus, but I begged the math department chair to let me in his already full 8:00 am calculus class. That was possibly a life-changing moment. If I hadn't gotten into calculus my first semester, I would have probably just settled for filling my schedule with more business classes. I may have never tried to get into another calculus class. But that was not to be! Instead, I continued taking math classes and decided to drop my advanced accounting course when it was taking too much time away from my introduction to proofs course. I truly had no idea what I could do with a math degree, which scared my family to death. But, I trusted my teachers and advisor who assured me that I could get a non-teaching job with a math degree because I had no interest in teaching. With the encouragement and support of the Morehead math faculty, I secured positions in two Research Experiences for Undergraduates and one Undergraduate Research Semester program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). While at LANL, I worked on a project for the FBI concerning a purely voice-based technique for lie detection. The semester spent at LANL was also a life-changing event.