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[Music.]
I'm one of those really rare people who came in
knowing what I wanted to do.
So I came in as a chemistry major but you didn't
really know what you wanted to do, right?
Right, so I came in as an undecided.
I knew that I wanted to do sciences but I wasn't
sure if I wanted to do physics or chemistry or what.
And it really wasn't until I did undergraduate research
that I really fell in love with chemistry and
knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.
So then coming back here in 2005 as a faculty member
I really tried to provide those same kinds of
research opportunities to the students that we have now.
I think you can definitely see that in a lot of the faculty.
I mean I think your story is really neat in the sense
that not a lot of faculty went here for undergrad
and I think that's great.
But I think everyone really wants the students to succeed
and they try really hard to make sure everyone is
really interested in their classes.
And it's a really small program for majors.
And what I love about UVM is the classes for majors
are separated from the classes for pre-med students
and people who are not chemistry majors so I've
gotten to know both my fellow chemistry majors,
there's only like 10 of us, really well over the last 3 years
and conversely I've also, or additionally, I've also gotten
to know the faculty really well because when you're
in a 12 person class like our advanced organic class
I mean I was already doing research for you at
the time but you really get to know the faculty really well
because it's not just them on a podium a hundred feet away
from you and like in Angell lecture hall.
They're just about this far away from you telling you
what they know about chemistry and it's really great.