Hi! My name is Kaitlyn Pike. I am a second year
biopsychology major, and I’m hoping to earn a minor in French! I grew up in
Georgia until I was 14 when I moved to Michigan for my parents’ jobs. I didn’t
like the cold much, or being so landlocked, so I decided California was the
best place for me. After being recruited here for lacrosse, I finally made the
trip out and fell in love! If I’m not studying, you can probably find me on the
lacrosse field. I’ve been playing lacrosse since my sophomore year of high
school, and haven’t stopped since. I won the state championship my first year
playing, and hope to finish my lacrosse career by winning a national
championship here at UCSB! Some other things I love to do in my free time are
going to music festivals, playing guitar, and cooking. I’m also really
passionate about politics and social issues. I love talking about current
affairs and make a serious effort to stay educated and up to date on everything
that is happening in the world. I try to see a lot of the issues from every different
angle, because I’m really interested in understanding people and how they
think. This interest also carries over into my academic and future career path
as I hope to eventually get my Doctor of Psychology in clinical psychology. I’m
mostly interested in mental illnesses, and how they affect a person in all
aspects of their life. I’d love to be able to research people who do crazy
things like cannibals, people in cults, people that lead cults, serial killers,
and other social outcasts. Essentially, I’m interested in what makes them,
them. I find the recent trend of mass shooters interesting from a clinical
aspect as well, and hope to one day become a part of the research that leads to
a better understanding of why these events are happening on an individual and a
societal level.
