Let's go back home doc!
Reading this, you probably "surfed" over here on the "information superhighway". The journalist who coined those phrases should serve hard time. But that's besides the point. I got here a different way. To put simply, i have Dr. Sun and his Computer Networking course to thank. Leaving it at that would be like describing network topology from just the Application Layer. As senior engineering students, we must dig down deeper... all the way to the Physical Layer abyss. So lets start from the ground up. When i was about 10 or so, i saw "Back to the Future II" in the movie theatres. If you recall, the movie had flying skateboards. There was also a flase rumor about the invention of hoverboards being real, but apperently they couldn't be brought to the market due to saftey concerns. I believed it. I wanted one, and if i couldn't buy one, i was gonna have to make one, damn it. Flash forward 5 years. In a physics book i saw a picture of a supercooled cube suspended over a surface, with a caption describing how it had properties defying gravity. Like a born-again Christian (promised hoverboards instead of eternal life), i was zealot for my new religion: Science and Engineering. It wasn't until two years later that i understood the principle the picture refered to was not really anti- gravity", but it was actually more similar to a top spinning on a table. Unfortunately, it was too late. Science had its claws in me. Well, I've always been interested in how things work and had a fairly decent capacity to solve math problems, so i started out studying physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. College was always portrayed as THE ONLY option growing up. Every guidance counsler, teacher, and adult i came across made Higher Education seem like it was the only way to avoid a life of flipping burgers. Now i Wish i had a GI Bill to help me with my student loans! Anyways, RIT sucks. It sucks a lot. I'm sure mobs of people would try burning it down except for the fact that it's made completely out of brick. And it's FREEZING in Rochester. I'm not sure if combustuble products would catch fire in an environment that cold, but if they did, the artic 20mph wind gusts would put it out. And although the girl-to-guy ratio there can be calculated, i've heard mathmeticians refer to it as an "infintesimal", whatever that means. After that bad (and expensive) taste in my mouth, i did some time over at CCRI, studying liberal arts, and eventually took up engineering. Taking both mechanical and electrical courses, i finally decided on ELE because i was the kid at the school dance doing the electric slide while all the future mechies were doing the robot. After completing the Associates program, i headed over to URI, where i am currently loving life.