About Me
As you probably know from the home page of this site, I'm one of the nerdiest people in my class. I am currently a freshman in the MSC program at Churchill High School. Last year I was in the MACAT program at Frost Middle School; there's more about that on the School Page. I love doing nerdy stuff with with computers (duh), which is one of the reasons why I made this Web site, and enjoy playing video games in my down time. I also like to do science experiments and stuff like that...but why am I talking about my favorite things to do? I have a page on this site devoted to favorites! Oh well, I've always been a bit absent-minded...
I'm not usually one to brag, but on an "about me" page it's only fair to the reader to give a complete picture. Therefore I'm also going to tell you that I'm a straight-A student who took Algebra I (through a distance-learning course) in the sixth grade while everyone else learned about negative numbers. I've taken the ACT three times before high school, scoring 27, 35, and 33 composite in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade respectively (and I had a bad cold when I took it in 6th grade). Then just this year (9th grade) I took the ACT again and got another 35. I've also taken the SAT twice, scoring 670/750 (math/verbal) in the seventh grade and 720/760 in the eigth grade. I am saying these things not to try and impress my audience but to try and give them a better idea of why I would want to hand-code my own web site at 14 years of age: it's one of the few things that challenges and interests me.
Being a nerd, I also have a slight disdain for being "cool." I am not, and will never be, "cool" in the sense of a popular person that likes all the popular things and always says the right things at the right times. And anyways, I don't like how most "cool" people have this elitist attitude and think that certain things are "beneath" them just because they're so cool. For example, they don't go out trick-or-treating because it's a "kiddy thing" and "immature." Sure, little kids dress up in Barney costumes and the like, but who says you have to be something stupid to go out trick-or-treating? There's plenty of adult costumes (such as Star Wars characters) that are perfectly "mature." Halloween can be simply a way of dressing up as someone else and having fun showing your costume to everyone, not just a five-year-old's opportunity to collect free candy. In this and many other cases, "cool" people just don't stop to think about the different levels of an activity/place/person and judge based on their first impression - that it's somehow not cool enough for them. They're being more stupid than suave, if you ask me.
Of course, all this isn't to say that I'm an obsessive, narrow-minded individual. I'm not any good at sports, but I respect people who are (as long as they don't have an attitude about it) and acknowledge that not all football players are thick as bricks. I am on the cross-country team, in part because it's the only "sport" I have a chance at success in (after all, you usually just compare your race times to yourself; only varsity runners worry about place), but also because I know that consistent, if not extreme, exercise throughout your life is the only way to keep from getting incredibly fat and having your heart give out on you. And I realize that people can be "smart" (to use a slang term) without being computer-savvy and technophilic.