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I'm a planet hunter I'm a

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co-investigator for NASA's Kepler

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mission whose objective is to find

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earth-size planets orbiting other stars

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in our galaxy I came here as an expert

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in stellar astronomy

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so understanding the stars themselves so

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one of my first jobs here was to pick of

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the millions of stars at least that our

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telescope is going to see which are the

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150,000 that were actually going to

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observe when I entered college I was

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planning on being a business major so

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it's very far from science and yet I was

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always good at math so that was kind of

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in the back of my mind and one day in

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college I kind of asked myself out of

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the blue the question you know if you

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could do anything what would it be and I

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decided at that moment I would work for

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NASA

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the space program I just enrolled in a

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physics class applied for an internship

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that was key to my professional

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development and everything else just

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kind of fell into place you know when

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it's right when we're young we don't

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really know what all the possibilities

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are so when you're young and you're

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growing I think you just want to be sure

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you're trying new things and you want to

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pay attention to the things that inspire

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you pay attention to that and follow

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that path and ask yourself the question

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you know if you could do anything what

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would it be and that's really actually

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easy to figure out the answers are going

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to come to you immediately and when it

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does you take a baby step in that

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direction and don't focus so much on the

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goal itself just to enjoy the ride you

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know just take the journey and see where

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it leads you I could not have chosen a

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career that didn't have meaning to me

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and the Kepler mission is just about as

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meaningful as it gets and we're looking

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for new worlds in our galaxy places that

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are potentially habitable more than that

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where we're trying to figure out if

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earth-like planets are even common in

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our galaxy so that when we look up in

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the sky we can say you know that we're