Shawn Ryan

But I think one of them had interned at SpaceX or things like that.

So it was, you know...

I think I didn't appreciate how valuable your peers are until I started going more towards physics, just because then I got into the whole research community and stuff.

But yeah, I probably was just annoying little freshman.

How much younger were you than everybody?

No, no.

I mean, no, I think I wasn't that much younger, but enough when you skip a year or so.

Like, right, college is, yeah.

If you're, how old I would have been, like 17 or something, and they're like 21 or two, it's still a bit different if you're, yeah.

They're more independent.

Yeah.

So then I went over to physics because I guess I made that choice for physics because I liked my physics courses.

And again, all of these tech people who were in aerospace were my heroes and they liked physics.

So I'm like, I'm going to try to impress them.

How hard can it be?

But the mistake I made was I guess that I just kind of took the first course

internship type opportunity from the person who was technically my undergrad advisor.

And so it was at CERN.

So CERN is cool.

But I'm sure that, like, I didn't necessarily make the right choice in the sense that I wasn't, like, scanning all opportunities of things within the field I could be interning at or whatnot.