I liked cybersecurity enough to sit in on a college lecture on it. I asked the professor about a question I had and he asked me if I was thinking of focusing on

I liked cybersecurity enough to sit in on a college lecture on it. I asked the professor about a question I had and he asked me if I was thinking of focusing on cybersecurity. I told him that I was doing a biology major at the time and he suggested I self reflect on what I see myself doing in the future. I ended switching 3 years into cell biology/neuroscience to CS. If you mean CS as a topic, I wanted to play runescape over the summer when I was in middle school. My parents took the router with them because they wanted me to do something productive over the summer. So I ended up learning how to boot up Kali Linux from a USB and run Aircrack-ng to capture and decrypt the WEP wifi key. I wonder if I would be on a different path in life right now if the wireless card didn't support packet injection or monitor mode. It wasn't directly CS, it was being a script kiddie. But it got me interested in cybersec and linux. My first laptop lacked good video ram and so my options were limited to slitaz and puppy Linux. My comfort around computers can be directly traced to that summer. I didn't really get into the theory before college classes though. I technically did some pascal while hanging out with my friend who was doing hw in it for the intro CS high school class. I also did some BASIC programming on my Ti-89 to make some AP physics formulas easier and run a pokemon emulator, but nothing more complex than loops. I was fortune and my existing interests naturally aligned well with CS. I approached problem solving naturally in a way that is a developed skill for some people who chose to pursue CS professionally. When I was failing in orgo, my TA informed me bluntly that I was wasting my energy pursuing something I hated when we got into a discussion about shitty flash games we grew up playing, and I said how I decompiled certain games to change graphics. I don't consider what I did CS because I didn't touch actionscipt, I played with key frames and images. I think it led to me wanting to sit in on that cybersecurity class though. I knew basic Crypto math and was super paranoid about my privacy so I felt comfortable, arrogantly, about the 400 level material. I enjoyed it a lot more when I did take the class for real, during my final semester 2 years later.