Arlethea Williams-DHS Principal

I went to college with the plan to become a medical examiner, I’m sure part of that is the fact that I’m an introvert. There are times, considering the irony of what I do for a living, where I don’t feel like being bothered with people. Before CSI got big and all that, I was always intrigued by medical examination, so that’s what I wanted to do. My sophomore year in college after I had actually shadowed a medical examiner, who happened to be a lady because at that time there weren’t many of those I am sure there are many more now, not because of the visit but it just hit me, I don’t want to do this. I was a biology major and I had done research before, some summer research at the CDC, a few colleges, so I thought about that. So I thought “Oh, I’ll go get my PHD. But at the beginning of my senior year I said “I don’t want to do research, I don’t want to apply for grants”. So, I actually graduated from college which is here, city of Atlanta, not knowing what I wanted to do and I ended up subbing and through subbing I decided I wanted to teach. Now we’ll say this, when I was probably about your age, because I loved math, my math teacher said “why don’t you teach, you have a story to tell” and I told her, I don’t want to teach, they don’t make enough money. But no, not at all, I didn’t want to teach.