If you had told me on Sept. 10, 2011, that today I would not be studying math, that I would have majored in political science and that I’d be interested in foreign policy, it just it would have seemed completely outside the realm of possibility but I look back and when I think about my path that I’ve taken, serendipity plays a very large role, mentors play an immensely important role, and detours play a large role.