I was born on May 6, 1982 in Plano, TX. I am a Texan no matter where I live. I grew up there doing all of the stuff a kid can do. I played sports, played in the band and all of that good stuff. I moved up to Overland Park, KS over srping break of my sophomore year. It was probably the best thing school wise we could have done. The moved allowed me to keeping playing sports and playing in the band as well and do other extra curricular activites. The much smaller school (graduating class of 380 versus 1700) allowed me to do the stuff I wanted. This helped me a a great deal when it came time to apply to college. I applied to a dozen odd schools and was accpeted to three. Batting .250 isn't all that bad especially when the three schools are the Air Force Academy, Johns Hopkins, and Harvey Mudd College. I chose to subject myself to four year of academic abuse at Harvey Mudd. Despite everything, I loved every minute of my time at Mudd. Well, maybe not every minute, but just about. I spent every summer in college at school doing either summer school or research. During the fall of my senior year I applied to grad schools and was accpeted to two out of seven. Stanford and Columbia. It was kind of funny actually, I was rejected by one school twice for some reason. They sent me an email telling me that I did not get in, and then a few weeks later, I got a letter telling me the same. So this summer while waiting for grad school to start I got an internship in Belfast, Northern Ireland at a small telecom. And that me in a nutshell.