I was so dead set when I first
came to UK of being a sports
med physical therapist.
Like this is my second
semester, and I called my mom,
and I told her, I
was like, I think
I'm going to change my major.
And she was like, OK.
To what?
I was like, geology.
She just responds with,
well, that explains your rock
collection.
Everything sort of made
sense from that point on.
So Pioneer Natural sponsors the
lab I work currently work in.
And it's the Pioneer
Paleoenvironment
and Stratigraphy Lab.
As an undergraduate, I started
working in the stable isotope
lab.
There's so many options
available for undergrads
to work in all these
different labs.
You kind of dabble
in everything here.
We have the Kentucky
Geological Survey,
and we have these professors
with industry ties.
We have Pioneer that always
comes up here and interviews.
The reason studying at UK is
so great is we're in such close
proximity to all these
different tectonic regimes
and geological
provinces, that you
get exposed to so many
different field methods when
you go on class field trips, you
know, as an undergrad and even
as a grad.
I guess the main
thing that fascinates
me is that it's an
ever expanding field.
We don't just
focus on one thing.
When you dabble in a
little bit of everything,
that makes you so much more
well-rounded than other people
out there.
To me that's one of the
most valuable things
is if you play in
everything, nothing's
going to surprise you.
There really is
something for everyone.
You know, you could
go be a park ranger,
spend all your time outdoors.
Or you can go and work
in an oil company.
And then there's everything
in between that you
could think of.
The career options
are truly limitless.
And lo and behold, I ended
up choosing something
that I didn't even know was
a thing, and it kind of just
wrapped me in.
