About Me

Finally made it to the BIG 1-9! I'm from Elizabeth City, North Carolina, the town with that friendly small-town atmosphere where I still reside today. I am currently a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Though I have lived only a short while on this Earth, I am grateful to have seen many places throughout the globe. Travel is one of my favorite pastimes that has provided me the opportunity to learn more about the world around us. I have been to Canada, the Philippines, Japan, as well as various points within the U.S., including parts of the Northeast, Florida, California, and everything inbetween. Unfortunately, I have only documented a fraction of my trips.

On my free time I enjoy gardening, drawing, photography, interpreting maps, creating multimedia presentations (usually with Macromedia Flash MX) and developing this site. However, if there's one thing on this world that I'm fanatical about, it's Star Trek. I know that there are many 'Trekkies', but they are distributed far and wide. I know that many people find the franchise and its spin-offs to be droll and boring, but I like it and that's that. My room is a Trek shrine of sorts filled with 'Trek' books, computer games, magazines, models, etc.

In comparison to my peers, I can stand out as a strange little person, especially since I hold little interest in many of their interests. I neither play any sports or revel in watching it, I listen to 50's, 60's through mid 70's Oldies (The original rock and roll and R&B) music and I don't tend to indulge in the typical teenage cuisine which is often rooted in the greasy goodness of fast or junk food.

My life revolves around the pursuit of academic excellence. (Note 'pursuit'.) I am not always satified with my grades, but the important thing is that I am persistent above all else. In fact, in hind sight, I think that pursuing the hardest courses possible at Northeastern has steadily worn me down over the past four years. (Four AP classes over two years!) (I'm glad that I didn't arrive at college braindead...)

UPDATE--- Well, now that I'm on campus here at UNCG, I have to say that while I'm a bit homesick, I absolutely love the place. Phillips-Hawkins is probably the best dorm a freshman can get into on campus. I've got a good-sized room with a great roommate and a window facing the forest (It's on the edge of campus) and the dumpsters. The food here is OK (It's reputed to have some of the best food in the UNC system) and the campus is relatively compact, everything within 10 minutes' walking distance. (Not ridiculously sprawled out like State or Chapel Hill.) I have to say that so far, the weather is better than back home. At a higher elevation, Greensboro enjoys a humidity level substantially lower than in EC. That's good in the summer, but not so in the winter. Our winters back home are moderated by that same humidity from being surrounded by all that water, so, I can say with certainty that the winter here will be comparatively more brutal. I'm still on the pre-pharmacy track with a major in biochemistry. (Why am taking a major that is essentially a fusion of both biology and chemistry majors? I don't know...) I'm not sure whether I'll stay here in G-boro all four years or take two years here and the rest back home at ECSU or Chapel Hill. If I do decide to pursue a degree and not just the pharmacy pre-reqs, those six years in higher education will blossom to eight. On a side note, I'm not gonna take the bus to Wal-Mart anymore. What should have been a thirty minute errand at most turned out to be 2 1/2 hours. Uh-uh. I'll just hitch a ride when I need to. So long...

Please enjoy the rest of the website and the links below. Enjoy the Star Trek information here, (one of my goals continues to be converting people to Trekdom) and don't forget to pay a visit to the photo menu.