I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians.
When I was 18, I moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.
I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.
My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.
My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.
While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.
I graduated from the University of Whatever.
I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.