I am a first-year student in the MS in Data Science and Multi Messenger Astrophysics NRT program. I graduated from the University of Minnesota in the spring of 2020 with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a minor in computer science. Since June, I have been working full-time at Medtronic as a Software Engineer on the Data Warehouse and Analytic Services team. This role exposed me to working with very large databases and developing data reports. My goals in these programs are to gain an intermediate level of astrophysics knowledge, develop data science skills and techniques, and increase my theoretical foundation.