David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

because she loved the sound of
everything. She ended up in Introductory
Chemistry, Spanish, a class called the
Evolution of Language, and Botanical
Roots of Modern Medicine, which she
describes as “sort of half botany class,
half looking at uses of indigenous plants
as medicine and what kind of chemical
theories they are based on.” She was in
heaven.