Three words to describe yourself: smart, socially-inept, unique
Katy is from Milledgeville, Georgia and says, "It's a good town to grow up and grow old in, but not when you're in the middle." Because she "grew up around science," with her mom being a biologist and her dad a chemist, Katy is studying chemistry in hopes of eventually receiving her PhD in physical chemistry. She would like to either become a researching professor or just a professor because she "likes to share knowledge." For Katy, the most difficult thing about college has been relating to "normal, non-science people." She further says that science people are their own subculture. During car trips, her family would discuss theories made by Newton or Einstein, but she says that at UGA, "It's figuring out who Kim Khardashian is." I asked Katy what the most interesting theory is that she has learned, and Katy responded with particle-wave duality theory. From her explanation and my understanding, I think that Katy said something about matter being energy. She says, "People have the potential to do anything. We're all energy," and that "It's important to interact with all kinds of different people." Katy wants to travel to Mecca because she is interested in a mass migration of people and it's one of the five pillars of Islam, even though she does not believe in that ideology. She would really just like to travel everywhere, but says, "That's like majoring in everything." "I wish I could be a Renaissance man, but today's society is so specialized that it is difficult to be good at everything," she says.
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