The soft whirr that results seems out of touch with the breathtakingly beautiful yet oddly pristine and efficient surroundings.
Then a loud voice booms out. You feel like you're in a museum.
Then you realize why it's not entirely like a museum. There's no "off" switch.
I started out my college experience at »Lancaster Bible College, during High School. They have a great program, called the Sunrise Sunset Program, for high school students to get a free class each semester. I studied two semesters of English, General Psych, and Public Speaking. Yes. I was insanely studious back then too.
Then, when I graduated from high school, I took a semester of »The American College of Computer and Information Systems. My friend Jonathan Brownell started at the same time. I decided to look at studying writing instead, but he stuck it out, finished in two years, and got a job at Hewlett Packard right out of school.
<sigh>Oh Well<sigh>
After a long and drawn out decision-making process, I became a student at »Elizabethtown College.
I am a member of the Hershey Foods Honors Program.
In the Fall of 2003, I gave a presentation with Benjamin Osterhout on parliamentary procedure at the National Collegiate Honors Conference
I also happen to have some friends (wow! I'm not a completely antisocial type. Just mostly, eh?). One of them is Byron McGee.
I am focusing on English Literature as a backhanded way to read a lot of good examples of great Writing and sneak some of my own. I am a computer science minor, and hope to graduate in 2005.
During the Spring of 2003, the English Department paid for Anne Baublitz, Kristen LeFever, and I to attend the annual English Language and Literature conference held at »The University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois. We had a blast.
Doctor Leap is the absolute coolest member of the faculty at Etown College. He has been the most influential professor in my life. If it weren't for him, this website would not exist, I wouldn't be a programmer, graphics designer, or writer. Without Dr. Leap, who knows where I would be. I have no clue. Dr. Leap looks good in fractal.
I have had classes with Dr. Mark Harman, Dr. Kevin "The Superman" Scott, Dr. Martin, and Dr. David, "The Evil Twin" Downing. I plan on taking a nonfiction course with Dr. Willen, who may also teach me how to play Irish music on the Guitar (I started taking lessons in the Fall of 2003). I also plan on playing the guitar with Dr. Rohrkemper.
I have also spent time takling with Dr. Olson, and Dana "Culling" Mead. I did a project with former provost Ronald J. McAllister, who is just absolutely the most energetic, upbeat prof of all time (a great favorite with all the students I know).
I also enjoy speaking to Dr. Brown, who has an uncanny knack for suggesting great coffeeshops and used bookstores. He is a fan of Hofstatder, who wrote the great hacker book Godel, Escher, Bach, The Eternal Braid. In fact, Dr. Brown, a history prof, is working on a comprehensive biography of the man. I look forward to seeing it.
I play the trumpet in Wind Ensemble and Concert Band under Dr. Kimberly Reese, who was in the air force band and is an amazing musician. (Sadly, in the spring of 2003 she had a really bad medical condition and could not direct the band. She has now taken a really amazingly exciting position as faculty at the Hart School of Music).
Wind Ensemble is now dissolved, and Scott Sharnetzka, who played trumpet in the army band and toured with the Moscow Circus, is our current director.
Dr. "Arrgh!" Fritz and I have tons of fun working on technology stuff together. We set up a login application for the OS X machines on campus.
I take Guitar lessons with »David Cullen, who is just a fantabulously amazing guy.
As you can notice, I do a lot with music. Sometimes, I think I should be an honorary music major or minor.
I tend to randomly annoy random other people too, but not enough for me to compensate by putting a page up about them.