I became interested in computer science when I took my first computer science class my senior year of high school. I became interested in learning how things work. I wanted to know what allows a person to interact with a computer. What happens when a person clicks a link? How is a website designed? How is data used? What function is created to organize data? Where does this all happen? I became intrigued by the language computer scientists learn to speak in order to communicate with a computer.

I have always been interested in psychology because I grew up reading books. I would read about book characters and wonder why they are the way they are. I became interested in trying to understand what makes a person a person and why people are different from each other. Why are people so different? How can they be so similar? How do people develop? It amazes me how people are always changing. I am always curious to understand how, and it always feels like an endless opportunity to learn when I try to understand why.

Computer science and psychology are two extremely different subjects, but I have always seen them as two parallel areas. Computer science has hardware and software, which I think of is equivalent to how people have biology and psychology. A program has code that tells it what to do like how a person's personality affects how they act. Psychology complements computer science, because it's used for user testing, UI, UX, and even AI since developers need to know how a person thinks in order to create an AI machine. I want to combine computer science and psychology because I believe it makes problem-solving more effiecient. In order to create optimal code, one must understand people.