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I like drawing and buying groceries, but I’ve been having a hard time deciding which one I’m better at. I’m happy to report that I practice both on a regular basis.

I've played piano for 15ish years now. I try to bake when I have the time to feel especially exhausted or burned out, since the mechanical nature of baking is a nice break. I also nominally play tennis, in that I used to play a lot, but I recently haven’t found time when the weather has been acceptable.

I released my first full-sized game last year. It's called Super Dunkman.

I enjoy building things for myself and watching things work together. I'm also a big fan of the crossover between math theory and computer science theory.

I had never even seen code, much less written it, until I got to college. I thought computer science sounded pretty interesting but some of my friends told me I would destroy my GPA by taking 142 because it was too difficult. Finally, the summer before my junior year I decided to try CSE 142 for fun, and I ended up loving it and deciding to pursue it further.

I spent most of my life singing in various choirs, and then I got really involved in musical theatre about 6 or 7 years ago. When I started college I decided that I wanted to study musical theatre as well as CS, so I'm working on two majors right now. Last quarter I was in the UW production of Pippin, but I'm taking this quarter off from doing shows to be your TA! I also enjoy reading and sleeping on occasion.

It is difficult to narrow down one thing that is the most exciting; computer science is so ubiquitous that everything I get excited about involves computer science to some degree. That being said, one of the coolest things I've been able to see first-hand is the construction of Blue Origin's automated self-landing rocket booster. I can't wait to see what the future of space-flight holds, and computer science is going to hold a big part in it.

Hmmm. I once took a trip to China and came back with salmonella from a McDonalds there (mind you their chicken sandwiches were superb).

Aside from school and TAing, I'm president of an Academic Trivia RSO that meets fairly frequently for practices and tournaments.

I entered this world with a doppelganger (I have a twin, you should probably watch out for her)

I lived in Loomis, California before 6th grade. After that, I moved to a super small farm town in Washington, called Kittitas. I graduated from high school with a class of 40 people, then I escaped to UW to study CS.

It's hard to say, exactly. I like computer science in part because it lets you build amazing things with even potato computing devices and in part because I find the notion of quantifying and mathematically analyzing computation or the act of "doing" to be inherently fascinating.
That said, I do have a love-hate relationship with technology in general. There are definitely some days where I wish I could just go off the grid and become Amish or something...

I grew up in the area. My academic path to CSE was a winding one. I came into college wanting to major in neurobiology because I had a concussion my sophomore year of high school that made me want to learn more about the brain. As I entered college, I continued on my academic path and majored in neurobiology. However, the summer before my senior year, I decided to take CSE 142 because it related to the research I was doing at the time, which was on analyzing the MRIs of premature babies. I fell in love in CSE during that class and it led me to take CSE 143 in the fall. I was still so in love with the material that I decided to pursue post-baccalaureate studies in CSE at UW once I graduated with my neurobiology and psychology degrees.