“I politely declined the offer, but it also sparked something for me. The future Google director for business operations and strategy still remembers being surprised by the question. Klemp was a National Merit Scholar and one of the only female students in that class. At the end of my first lab, one of my professors asked if I needed tutoring,” said Annie Christian Klemp, Rice University alumna (B.A.
“As a freshman ECON major, I took an introductory Computer Science class because I had enjoyed CS classes in high school.