Journal created:
on 17 April 2001 (#103876)
Updated:
on 17 March 2014
Name:
Stave
Birthdate:
16 January 1985
Location:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
1985-1990 - Born in Silicon Valley. Raised in Sunnyvale.
1990-1995 - Attended elementary school. Nerdy. Few best friends. Good grades.
1995-2003 - Attended middle and high school. Played Magic card game at lunch. Life was about doing well in school and playing social video games with friends. Developed love of computer science, math, and theatre in high school. Perfect grades, except in PE. B+'s until high school. Graduated 2003, valedictorian.
2003-2007 - Attended college. Developed self confidence/arrogance, love of hot tea, sunsets, girlfriend. Double majored in computer science and math in four years. Perfect grades. Summer jobs included toy store cashier, college theatre stagehand, computer engineer. Graduated 2007, summa cum laude, honors from both CS and math departments, presidential scholar. Highest GPA in class of 2007.
2007-2009 - Living in the real world. Working for world-famous computer company. Moved out from home into expensive 1BR apartment for just over a year. Moved and bought a condo in 2008. Bought a car at the same time. Hoping to sell the condo for a profit in the next few years and trade up. Suffering the conflict of being expected to settle down and not wanting/able to. Life is about maintaining quality of work, love, home, friendships, not necessarily in that order. Overwhelmed, but hanging in there.
Details? Read my journal. Lots of friends only entries that you're missing.
1990-1995 - Attended elementary school. Nerdy. Few best friends. Good grades.
1995-2003 - Attended middle and high school. Played Magic card game at lunch. Life was about doing well in school and playing social video games with friends. Developed love of computer science, math, and theatre in high school. Perfect grades, except in PE. B+'s until high school. Graduated 2003, valedictorian.
2003-2007 - Attended college. Developed self confidence/arrogance, love of hot tea, sunsets, girlfriend. Double majored in computer science and math in four years. Perfect grades. Summer jobs included toy store cashier, college theatre stagehand, computer engineer. Graduated 2007, summa cum laude, honors from both CS and math departments, presidential scholar. Highest GPA in class of 2007.
2007-2009 - Living in the real world. Working for world-famous computer company. Moved out from home into expensive 1BR apartment for just over a year. Moved and bought a condo in 2008. Bought a car at the same time. Hoping to sell the condo for a profit in the next few years and trade up. Suffering the conflict of being expected to settle down and not wanting/able to. Life is about maintaining quality of work, love, home, friendships, not necessarily in that order. Overwhelmed, but hanging in there.
Details? Read my journal. Lots of friends only entries that you're missing.
408, apple, beavis and butthead, blue man group, bowling, building computers, calculus, california, celebrity jeopardy, cherry pepsi, clockwork orange, computer science, continuum, disturbed, dvds, fremont high, french toast, futurama, gamecube, godsmack, hackers, half baked, ice cream, invader zim, jay and silent bob, killing mockingbirds, linda, logic, madtv, margie, mary, math, metal, movies, music, newsradio, nintendo 64, ps2, puns, purge, rammstein, richard cheese, rock, rock climbing, rohnert park, simpsons, skiing, sleeping, slipknot, slurpees, sonoma state, spineshank, starry night, static-x, subspace, sunnyvale, sunsets, super nintendo, technical theatre, the simpsons, theatre-not-theater, tool, ☠, ♡s☆sΩs♧s&blue☾s