I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.
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I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.
While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.
Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.