This episode is a bit special. We decided to share more of Mina Bissell's fascinating interview. In a previous episode, we focused our discussion around Mina's reasons for doing science, her personal influences, and her graduate school experience. However, Mina had so much more to say. In this episode Mina talks to us about Iran before the revolution, her family's situation during the Shah occupancy. She then tells us about how she fell in love with English literature and finally how she was able to integrate into a prestigious lab at UC Berkeley during her post-doc.