year's time. And because of that I couldn't -- I couldn't practice on my machine, my stenograph

machine. So what I did was instead of wasting semesters waiting to heal, I just took some

academics that I knew that I would need to take at some point just to get them out of

the way. And so, you know, I -- I see obstacles as not something that you necessarily need

to get over, but you have to be able to find a way around them. And, you know, whether

it's by figuring it out yourself or asking others, you know, how do I get around this,

you just do whatever you need to do to get where you want to be.

You know, just coming -- just coming from high school, you know, I wasn't satisfied,

you know, with what I did. And I guess that the big step was what I had to overcome is

saying, "Okay. I'm going to move down to California. I'm going to leave Seattle, what happened

in high school behind me, and I'm going to move forward, progress from there on out."

I think being that I was from one of the military and I haven't been in the school environment

since high school, I had to readjust back to the demands of -- um -- school as far as

like scheduling -- um -- planning my courses, what courses to take, and -- um -- basically

being a student again. Like, I have to readjust with -- rather than going to work and then

coming home and then that's it. I have to come home study, do homework, whatever it

may be.