My first memories are of Blacksburg, VA and the Virginia Tech campus, before we moved to Memphis and I spent most of my spare time in various activities at the University of Memphis . I graduated from White Station High School , in Memphis, in 1992, back before they put in the air conditioning. I also went to Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts in summer 1991. I went to college at Rice University in Houston, where I was a member of Will Rice College and a chemistry major.
Rice is the best place to hang out, though the academics can get kind of crazy.
My life was increasingly taken up by the Marching Owl Band , which continues to be a part of my life. OK, make that my main passion in life. After learning that I didn't want to work in industry, I took a job at Baylor College of Medicine doing research on silicone implants. There I learned about all the opportunities in the field of biochemistry. I ended up working on a Ph.D. in Biochemistry here at the University of Texas .