Carrie Linn:  

After leaving Bearden I went to Nashville for 4 years and got my engineering degree from Vanderbilt. It was there that I met David Linn, who would become my husband in 1993. After we graduated from Vandy we moved to Houston where I took a job as an engineer working for DuPont on the Houston Ship Channel and he began medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. We were married in 1993. I was in the process of getting my Master's in Electical and Computer Enginering Part time while still working at Dupont when I realized that I wasn't really enjoying my work. I wanted to do something in the medical field but felt I was too old/tired to start over in med school. We had just gotten 2 puppies so I started hanging out at the vet clinic every Saturday to see if I liked that and I did very much! They wrote me letters of recommendation and before I knew it I was starting vet school at Texas A&M in the fall of 1996. Dave stayed behind in Houston so we had a commuter marriage for a few years there. When he finished his residency we thought he would be stationed at San Antonio but instead they put him at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, OH. This was going to mean an even bigger commute or I would have to transfer to Ohio State, between my 2nd an...Expand for more