To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

Search for role models you can look up to and people who take an interest in your career. But here's an important warning: you don't have to have mentors who look like you. Had I been waiting for a black, female Soviet specialist mentor, I would still be waiting. Most of my mentors have been old white men, because they were the ones who dominated my field.

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog.

You know, life is not one in which you just get to choose the things every day that come easily to you. And it's also true - and this is the self-esteem problem - you learn that there are people who are better at things than you are.

So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.

I love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.