My Intellectual Journey

I was obsessed with knowledge from an early age. I learned to read at around two and a half, I read the World Book Dictionary my parents bought me by the time I was twelve, and I was working on my first novel manuscript when I was twelve as well. My interests went from dinosaurs to sharks to plants (narrowing down to orchids) from elementary school through high school. In high school, I decided to become a biologist, and between my Junior and…