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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?

— 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.

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

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.

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