Rachel Winston:  

In 1976, I graduated from Montgomery Blair High School and went to Syracuse University where I majored in Chemistry. Since then, I have worked as a chemist, quality control analyst, author, freelance writer, researcher, college counselor, and mathematician. I began teaching chemistry and English in 1980 and have been a mathematics professor for nearly three decades. Although it may sound static, my life has taken many dynamic twists which have taught me lots of lessons. Mostly, my life's adventure can be defined as the consummate student. There have been only a couple of years out of the last four decades in which I was not in college including Harvard undergrad and grad school, Gallaudet University, Pepperdine, USC, CSUF, and a bunch of other schools. I first applied to college in 1973 and now, I am still a college student with numerous degrees in a wide variety of fields. My Ph.D. is in Higher Education Leadership from the University of Texas at Austin in which I flew back and forth from California to Texas each week for full time school in Texas while working full time in California. I am currently completing an MBA from Claremont Graduate University in California just to have a deeper knowledge of finance and accounting. My other degrees include masters degrees in mathematics and computers. Counseling students to help them get into undergraduate and graduate school is a passion of mine. I have taught at UCLA in their...Expand for more