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e-mail: [email protected] ) I was born in Conneticut. I have lived in NewYork, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Maryland. Since 1981 my family has been in Timonium, MD. Currently my brother Steve is in Grand Rapids, Michigan. My sister Susan lives in New York city. My other sister Ann lives in Baltimore. You can see their pictures in the online photo album. I went to Dulaney High School in Timonium and graduated in 1993. After that I didn't really want to go to college but I decided on Virginia Tech because it was cheap and had a lot of good stuff to choose from if my first choice of physics fell through. I chose physics because it was the one science that I got good grades in. I wanted to learn something that I couldn't learn on my own. Something that would make good use of a university. Physics seemed to be a good choice but very difficult. I muddled through without too many breakdowns. My junior year I had completed most of what was required of a senior in physics with the exception that I had a lot of core classes to finish up. I knew at this point that I hated lab work and I didn't feel that a business job was where I should end up. One friday morning as I participated in the SPS coffee and donuts, I was approached by a professor who had some comments for my shirt which read 'people who wear glasses are ugly nerds'. After the idle banter was out of the way he introduced himself as Dr. Chang, whom I later discovered was the department chair. I never really knew many of the faculty with the exception of my teachers. He had told me that he had this new program and he was trying to get support from the students. The Outreach program, as it is commonly called, is a joint effort of the Physics department and the Service Learning Center and is funded by the National Science Foundation. I have been a part of the outreach program since it started and have created the web site as well as developed most of the program along with Dr. Chang. Currently we are in our second year of the program and we are branching out quite nicely. You can learn more about the program at the Outreach site. My senior year was spent finishing up my classes, working as the lead mentor in the Outreach program, playing in a few music ensembles, and teaching my own class. The class was one of HTML code. It was offered in the physics department to faculty staff and students. In the music side of things I play tuba in the marching and symphony bands, and electric bass in a jazz percussion ensemble. I have been a member of the Marching Virginians since I arrived at Tech. In the band I have held the leadership positions of rank captain for two years and was elected executive officer of the band for my senior year. As you may have figured I graduated in the spring of 1997 with a BS in Physics. In my class of 12 I have no idea what my ranking was. We were just happy to get finished, most of us in 4 years. I enrolled in the College of Human Resources masters program for secondary school science education. I pay my way with a TA position in the Physics department. I do a whole lot of webmaster type crud too. Check out all (most) of my sites by clicking My Other Sites in the contents bar. At the end of my first semester I decided that the prospects for student teaching in this area were not to my liking. So I decided to change my degree to Instructional Technology. Same college, same degree, but different focus. Best of all I can still finish in the same time frame. I am taking classes that give me more experience with using new technologies to instruct a wider variety of subjects. So far so good! I recieved my masters in Instructional Technology in the fall of 1998. Although I don't reallyt feel any different, I suppose I am a PhD student now. The classes are mainly more of the same, but I have to do a thesis once I come up with something to do. If I am lucky, I can manage to make the work I do in physics tie in somehow, thus reducing the amount of work I have to pull off the degree. People keep asking me what I want to do when I am done with the degree. To be honest I don't really know. Maybe I will find something else I want to learn, and find someone else to pay me while I learn it. Maybe I will just have to give it up and get a job. Ick a job, what a horrible concept. Although it would be different to make more than 13K a year. I am not sure that it would be better or worse, jsut different. I will put more in the bio but that is good for now. I have to clean my room... I always have to clean my room... |
