Curiosity got me here.

When I was thirteen, I helped build my first computer with some friends from my extended family. Everyone was sitting at a table and working on their portion of the job; there was that silent concentration thing going on where everybody is really focusing on what they have to do. At school, I started a rocketry club; the launches don't stand out to me but asking everyone questions and sitting in the trunk of someone's car on a chilly spring morning before going on the firing range sure does. I didn't have a particular passion for either computers or rockets. I liked making things happen and working together with people to make those things happen.

There was a shift when I went to Wesleyan University as a freshman. In one of the introductory classes on electronics, I realized that I was doing work that was several more classes down the line in the program. Then I knew what I really wanted to do. Not simply be a student but create solutions to the problems I saw.

This has taken me from creating my own electronics class, launching StatPatch with a paramedic who recognized the need for one, to rolling out my laundry monitor on campus, where there shouldn't be any reason for 40 students to go downstairs and see if the machine is open.

I don't have any domain in which I have to work; all I need to do is create systems that address the issue at hand. Whether it's a device for tracking vital signs of a patient in the ambulance or anything else that makes the routine things in life easier, I just like doing it.