My name is Luke Sligh. I am from Marietta, Georgia which is a suburb in west metro Atlanta. I am majoring in Biology and I hope to also earn a distinction in leadership studies. My future career plans are up in the air at the moment because there are several areas that I could see myself working in. I am very interested in law and public health, so ideally, I could incorporate those in my future. The idea of patent law is intriguing, and this is the direction I’m slowly leaning. In this class I hope I can build on what I've learned in Organismal and Cell & molecular biology, to better understand the way that the human genome fits into these fields. I am also very interested in genetic disorders and how they are being treated. My interesting fact is that my dad and I were both born on December 29, I was supposed to be born on Christmas day and was four days late, so I was born while my family threw my dad a birthday party at the hospital. Lastly, if money were no object for a dream vacation I would go snowboarding in the Swiss Alps. I grew up snowboarding on the East Coast of the United States and throughout high school I was lucky enough to take several trips to Colorado and Utah. Snowboarding and being in the mountains have always been big parts of my life, and people have told me that skiing in the Alps is a completely different and unique experience.