Introduction

This blog will be about my history, thoughts, and interests. To give some background on who I am I'll tell you a summarized version of my history.

When I was very young, I came to believe that the ultimate trait a person could have was intelligence. This is because, I thought, if you are intelligent, you can learn to become whatever else you want to be. So I saw intelligence as a sort of meta-trait. During school, I developed an ego and was ego-driven to perform well in school.

I really tried hard in school to get A's, partly for scholarships, partly for my ego because I wanted to be the smartest kid there was.

I liked math and science because it was not ambiguous. There was a right answer to the problems. I was good at it, and I enjoyed learning and being the best at it.

I went on to college with a free ride, due my working hard in high school. I wanted to work with stem cells because in high school, I had gotten brain damage from either concussions from football or a nasty flu I caught my sophomore year. I wanted to fix my brain and recover the clarity of thought I once had.

As time went on, my thinking ability recovered, and my interests moved towards other topics. I became interested in brain-computer interfaces. I thought it would be really cool if we could have direct control over things in the real world by simply thinking. I also wanted the ability to directly conjure up experiences by directly stimulating the brain and share these experiences with other people with brain-to-brain interfaces.

I went on to graduate school with the intent of working with brain-computer interfaces. I didn't get very far because I had to leave due to health problems.

I went back to grad school, but it still didn't work out. Part of me would have enjoyed being a professor and sharing my thoughts with the students in the lecture hall. So I thought that the next best thing would be a teacher at the high school level. I would still get to teach material to the students.

And that brings me to now. I am in a teacher certification program for math, writing a blog as part of a class assignment.

I hope the following posts peak your interests.