Since I was in high school, I was fascinated with human behavior. I took a course in general psychology at Florence-Darlington Technical College and immediately decided that that was what I wanted to learn more about. I had initially thought that I would study to become a lawyer and had planned on studying criminology in undergrad, but that course in general psychology changed my mind. My undergraduate course work at Winthrop University in psychology piqued my curiosity in cognitive neuroscience, aging, and sleep. A class on sleep and memory made me decide that I wanted to learn more about the mechanism of sleep-based memory consolidation. Currently, I'm a graduate student in the psychology program at Georgia Tech studying that exact phenomenon.