curriculum \\ vitae人生行路

This page somewhat resembles a missive containing broad characteristics of my aesthetic and the peculiarities of my professional inclinations/background.

I am a 26-year-old non-hispanic white male from Wyoming. (As far as the Census Bureau is concerned).

My hobbies/interests include reading about history (no, not Roman history, and no, not WWI/WWII history), playing online battle royale games with my fiance, childhood friends, adulthood friends, and my siblings; urban planning (armchair and academic), drinking interesting beverages, cooking, clothing, minimalism, physical and digital security, meddling with high-spec technology, travel, and engaging in eco-friendly living practices where I can.

intransigents

Herein you may find an unenumerated (or nonenumerative, whatever) list of things that I have done and qualities that I believe are, probably, important as a professional and/or private individual. It would be difficult to persuade me to think they weren't important. Because it sounds funny and pretentious, I refer to them as "intransigents."

languages

(in descending order of fluency)

English

Good enough to deliberately bend the rules.

EDUCATION

Primary

Attended a small experimental public school in my home town from first through eighth grade. During Kindergarten, I attended a typical school. During my tenure, I enjoyed world-class teachers, above-average access to educational resources, and -- um -- No Child Left Behind? Over the course of my academic career, I took upwards of 112 standardized tests. I was extremely fortunate to learn here. It was close to home and every year we spent several months integrating international studies into our curriculum. We were pretty darn cosmopolitan. In first grade, we had a resident ex-実業家 teach us about 90s Japanese culture and sumi-e. I am certain that this experience is not consummately unique, but this type of education was -- and continues to be -- wholly foreign (haha) to the vast majority of Wyomingites.
My high school was remarkable for being built in the 1960s -- not for the time period, but for the fact that it was designed and built by Californian contractors that only visited the state during the summer. As such, it was originally designed by open-concept hooligans a la FLW and was consequently not remotely conducive to ワイオミング毎日生活. I am/was (time is an illusion and so is death) related by non-blood kin to one of the people that ultimately approved the design. In case you are unaware, Wyoming is not a designated csa-csc climate zone, which means that this was an oversight of grossly negligent proportions.
It was also remarkable for having one of the only -- if not the only -- high school Japanese teachers in the state. Although, if you grep it, you might be confused by their conspicuously Polish surname. I assure you that that's a patrilineal and that they are not just a protoweeb. (Are you beginning to see a pattern?) I participated in debate each year and was moved up to varsity after my first meet. I did successively okayer until graduation. And then more recently, my debate coach was arrested and convicted of engaging in pedophilia. So that's cool.
I went to the University of You-Guessed-It, acquired a BA in I-Already-Used-the-Words-Go-Find-Them, and minored in I-Literally-Can't-Drop-Any-Less-Subtle-Hints. I had a 'supa-coo' Taiwanese professor for three of my four years who was — contextually — comically left. She taught me a lot about urban planning and how people can live comfortably in an urban environment. She gave me a lot of hope for the future and nurtured an empathy for humans that Wyoming sociopolitical culture had frankly done everything in its power to extinguish. Under her and another very-neat professor's supervision, I wrote and published two papers re: urban planning and progressive policy. Both papers were successfully defended before panels of international discussants including a 30 under 30 diplomat and internationally renowned educators.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Casper Community Greenhouse Project

In the late summer of 2014, I was participating in yet another experimental program. This one required me to complete a capstone. I had no idea where to start because I had not been adequately taught how to think. Parents and educators spent most of their time being remarkably "hands-off" with me because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I don't exhibit any outward symptoms of developmental disabilities? Previous generations were not instilled with the need to recognize and confront weaknesses in habit formation and thought patterns? During primary education, I was tasked with completing quarterly projects with a graded presentation. I was a varsity debate member. Not an idiot, just ignorant. I digress: no idea where to start.
Through a family friend, I was introduced to the concept of public greenhouses. I was aware of services like SNAP and things like NPOs, but community-organized poverty alleviation systems were a new concept. So new and foreign that I hadn't realized they were a distinct entity in my mind until much later. Unlike a typical non-profit, private, or public works program, this one was carried out by the people it affected most. Often, creating something like this is impossible for small groups — it requires too many resources, too much time, or too much effort without a large organization behind it. However, greenhouses are relatively simple, and once they are built, maintenance is often trivial. I knew that there was a deteriorating greenhouse on school property in a satellite town nearby. I contacted members of the school district until someone was able to communicate the proprietor's identity to me. Then I played phone tag for two weeks until I received written permission to use the greenhouse with permission from the school. I became acquainted with faculty and staff over a brief meeting, left an adequately positive impression, and was welcomed to tinker with their translucent shed in addition to accompanying classes on field trips while explaining the project's mission, values, and goals. The interior had been used as storage for some time and needed to be cleared out. However, I learned quickly that someone had had the foresight to establish a robust aquaponics system that relied on fish to cycle nutrients through the soil over long periods of time. This meant that instead of replacing soil, I would be replacing fish, which is considerably less disruptive to crop harvesting patterns and relatively easy to do on a consistent basis. But it also meant I had to become familiar with the mechanics of water filtration and drip irrigation. I spent hours watching tutorials. [tbc] last updated 25/05/2022 home portfolio Wanna see my art on twitter?