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I actually started off as a teenager thinking 
that I wanted to go work for NASA one day,  

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and so I studied aerospace engineering initially 
at university, but I became interested in ocean  

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engineering towards the end of my university 
career and then made that transition into  

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studying the oceans, but always with the 
idea in the back of my mind that wouldn't  

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it be great to work for NASA one day? 

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The only 
thing that I was really good in high school was math.

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Math came easy to me, I 
don't really have to study math,  

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just, you know it was really easy, 
that was the only thing I was good at,  

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my counselor, of course, said
"engineering is for you!"

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I think just my interest in math and science  

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pushed me towards engineering, and 
liking or learning about how things worked.

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"Thank you to the women in STEM who have made the Hubble Space Telescope what it is today!"