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Growing up, Sadie Wieckowski did not consider herself a math kid.

In high school, I was sat between a 12 year old kid who was in calculus and a kid who

was a couple years behind me and they compare quiz grades on my desk.

And there was like, what do you get Sadie?

And I had to hide my grade because it was a B plus that I felt so bad about it.

And even though a B plus is a fine grade, she chose as many people do to avoid math.

And so I was like, I'll go into neuroscience, they don't need math, turns out it's all statistics.

But even with the statistics, she loved to research on sleep and memory.

And it also led her to another passion that would eventually steer her even closer to

a numerical niche.

A lot of that research requires sitting in a dark room, waiting for an undergraduate to

fall asleep.

And so it's just like a lot of sitting in a dark room, watching brain waves on a computer

screen, twiddling your thumbs.

And so I got really into podcasts.

And that got her thinking about pursuing a career in science communication.

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