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well one of the big things in my life

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that really changed a lot of things for

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me was becoming a type 1 diabetic

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one night i'm walking down the hallway

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and i can't even walk straight blood

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sugar's a thousand and

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lucky i lived to the next day

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sort of thing but i'll tell you that

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shaped my life

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in a big way because

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there

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i went from you know being blissfully

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unaware

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to having to control a major bodily

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function by myself every day it was one

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of those things where i could have let

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it stop me a lot of people just give up

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but no that's

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it's another one of those life lessons

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you

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learn about it

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you deal with it you control it and you

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move on to do the rest of the things in

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your life

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my name is karen gundy berlet i'm a

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research scientist and i work at nasa

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my uncle floyd started a little

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airline between paso robles and santa

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cruz and basically it was to distribute

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the apples from the family ranch in

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washington down into the area here

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but beyond just the airline he also did

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barnstorming and i grew up with all of

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these wonderful pictures and stories of

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all of his exploits and it did make me

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very aware of aviation

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i was born in san jose california lived

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in the same house all my life i went to

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uc berkeley for my undergraduate degree

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and then to stanford for my master's and

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phd degrees

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undergraduate degree was in mechanical

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engineering and master's in phd in

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aeronautical engineering

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my high school biology teacher knew hans

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mark who was a center director at the

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time and

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so she knew that there was programs for

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high school students it was one of those

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amazing interviews here i am just a you

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know a high school junior and

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talking about differential equations and

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how they approximate them and it just

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it was great so i um that was my first

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experience at nasa was with that

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interview and i just

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from there on i worked one day a week at

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nasa during the school year

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and i was paired off with a series of

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different mentors wonderful

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research scientists who

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taught me

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so much

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right now i'm working on the lunar

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atmosphere dust environment explorer

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it's a spacecraft mission i'm the flight

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software quality engineer

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being able to actually apply a lot of

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that background work i've done in what

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happens in software systems and and the

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interaction between software systems and

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people and that interface and so being

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able to use that in order to

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to

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create new ways of verifying

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flight software is is just a fun job for

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me right now

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one of the things that i've learned here

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is even though i'm a math and techie

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person communication is absolutely vital

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if you can't talk about what you're

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doing

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it doesn't matter to the rest

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you if you can't convey it it's not of

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any use to anybody else

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i would advise somebody to not

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specialize too quickly too early i mean

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to

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really understand what's going on in

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math to link it with your sciences and

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learn how to communicate all of that

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be an intern figure out what you want to

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do with your life try a few different

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places a few different companies

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don't be afraid to test the waters out

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i've probably had

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five or six really critical mentors as

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i've moved through my career starting

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out as a 16 year old and finding

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a series of scientists who were

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helpful

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challenging

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and each one of them i i think highly

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and i try to give back i bring on

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students all the time and try to pass on

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the knowledge and the experience that

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was given to me with new crops of of

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students and other employees

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i think one of the most important things

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when you're coming up young in in a

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field like this is not to be deterred by

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little things

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i mean

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every

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um little roadblock find a way around it

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go over it don't don't let yourself get

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stopped because i've watched too many

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people

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become dispirited because of a little