0marTheZealot
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Originally posted by: Aimster
Originally posted by: 0marTheZealot
Name: 0mar Jawaid
Age: 23 on April 26
Location: Born Winfield, Illinois (suburb of Chicago) Currently: Davis, California
Education: B.S. Biology, Chemistry, Psychology from Loyola University in Chicago. Currently pursuing a Ph.D degree in Bioengineering, emphasis on energy, alternative fuels and energy systems
Occupation: Student/Research Assistant?
Religion: Muslim - Sunni/Wahabi depending on who you ask. Sunnis say I'm wahabi, Wahabis say I'm sunni.
Nationality: West African/Pakistani - American
Picture: Don't got one sorry!
Hobbies: Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2 (probably best FPS to date), Neverwinter Nights. Reading up on the latest advances in bio/chem engineering, reading (at a cursory level) about the latest in computer hardware, reading about oil/nat gas/coal/alternative energy supplies throughout the world. I also like computers a lot (i built this one).
Nice education. Did you want to be a doctor and then change your mind? How old were you when you started college?
Edit: N/M I didn't read carefully. "bio"engineering.
Hehe, no problem. My parents pressured me into being a doctor like many foreign born parents, but I saw most people I knew didn't really want to help people out, they really wanted the prestige of being a doctor. That just feels like a sham to me. I also got involved with an undergraduate research project and the research bug bit me. I really like it my field of study and would never change it.
I started college when I was 17 because my parents knowingly or unknowling enrolled me in Kindergarten a year eariler than I should have been. I didn't skip any grades or anything. I simply spent an extra year getting another degree. I double majored in Bio/Psych during my first 4 years, and decided to spend the next year going part-time and get a chem degree. I only needed something like 5 classes for it anyways. That way I'd sync with everyone else in graduate school (boy was I wrong there
