I've always loved math and science. I liked all aspects of it. I was never really good in English or history except for naval history, something that really interests me, but I loved academics in the fields that I enjoyed which I just mentioned. My future in my mind was going to be in flying so in college I picked aerospace engineering to be obviously the closest thing that I could come to being aviation-related and directly applicable to my job in the future. I got a great quality education at the Naval Academy. When I was there the class sizes were small, and I wasn't a natural learner. I can't sit in a class and just take everything in and absorb it or read a book and it all comes in. I need to really understand it and so the Academy was outstanding from the standpoint that the instructors were half military, half civilian and that every one of them wanted you to succeed.