My parents were huge driving forces in choosing science as a career. My mom is a chemical engineer and my dad is a computer scientists. Growing up my dad would let sit and take apart old computer parts and put them back together and my mom would talk about her patents and her amazing research. My sister, a microbiologist, would do "experiments" with me that consisted of us putting soap and tissue in mason jars and hiding them in different environments around the house to see which would grow mold faster. We often forgot where we hid them, my dad found one a few years ago in my closet. My parents nourished my curiosity, and I will forever be thankful. It is this curiosity that led me to my current path. To me, the brain is like space, or the deep ocean, there is so much we know, but so much we still have to learn. There are so many mysteries, and unlike the ocean or space, these mysteries can unlock our own potential and help us figure out who we are, how we function. I stumbled into cerebellar research, pun intended, because I met my current mentor at the amazing Marine Biological Laboratory. The cerebellum is absolutely beautiful and, in my opinion, is the "space" of the brain. We are just now discovering new roles of the cerebellum that go far beyond just motor coordination, and I am so excited to be apart of those discoveries that will help enrich people's lives.