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Let's try to get the official stuff out of the way first. I'm a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara, and I've been working at SLAC for the past several years while working to complete my degree in physics. I'm a member of the BaBar collaboration here at SLAC, so I spend most of my time studying B mesons. Well, most of my time at work, anyway.
I got interested in science at a pretty early age. Pretty much after I realized I would never be tall enough to play professional basketball. Science to me was always this neat thing that you did in order to better understand the world. Granted, as you progress the math gets harder and it's easy to forget what's really going on, but at the end of the day, my satisfaction comes from finding out something new about nature. One of my big goals in life is to be able to take what I have learned and get other people excited about science. If I'm lucky, I'll eventually get paid to do this.
I moved to California from Minnesota, which is still what I consider home. My whole family still lives there, so one of the fun things for me to do is to call my family in January and laugh about the blizzard they're having while it's sunny and warm here. I'm a big sports fan and a bit of an athletics nut. I'm a member of the Tae Kwon Do club at Stanford, which has been a really fun contrast to my work as an aspiring physicist.
There's of course a lot more to tell, but I suppose all this will come out in the coming months.
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