A brief summary of my life:
- late 1986: born in Berkeley, CA to a computer science graduate student and his wife
- 1990: Moved to Beavercreek, a suburb of Dayton, OH
- Attended Shaw Elementary School and the (now dead?) Beavercreek Elementary Learning Laboratory
- 1996: Moved to Middleton, MI because my father had become a United Methodist Pastor
- Attended Fulton Elementary & Middle Schools
- Learned to play the trumpet
- Ran track & field; was a founding member of the middle school cross country team
- Attended Fulton Elementary & Middle Schools
- 2001: Moved to Battle Creek, MI
- Attended Battle Creek Central and the Battle Creek Area Math & Science Center
- Ran cross country, track & field
- Achieved All-State, cross country, 2005 (5k in 16:16)
- Captain, 3 semesters
- Kissed a girl, went to prom, broke up later
- Became a National Merit Scholar Finalist and got a lot of good test scores
- Earned Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America, Troop 0309
- Graduated, valedictorian
- Got in a fender bender with my parents’ car
- Worked at Arby’s for two months to pay for it
- 2005: Attended Harvey Mudd College
- Took classes, and usually passed
- Made some friends, lost a lot, and got some back
- Kissed and broke up with a few more girls
- Fell in love with one
- Tutored some students
- Found out I liked political philosophy and hated modern philosophy of the mind
- Found out I hated modern art
- 2009: Graduated from HMC
- 2009: Took a job at DreamHost, working on the super-awesome Ceph
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