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So, when I got to grad school, it was a little different. My involvement with the Honors College was morphed. I was not really an Honors student which is more focused on undergrads.

— Wendy Okolo

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I was that person that would ask companies – hey, can your company help with this or that?

I can’t even imagine how I would have struggled during the first year transitioning to being an aerospace engineering freshman at UT Arlington, but again arduous is relative.

Everybody just wants to know, what’s your story, how did you get to NASA? How did a 26-year-old black girl get a Ph.D. in something like aerospace engineering and get to work at NASA?

It was a lot of responsibility for sure. But it came with a lot of growth as well. Growth and independence of some sort.

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