https://wiki.skyrien.com/index.php?title=Autobiographical_content&feed=atom&action=historyAutobiographical content - Revision history2024-03-28T09:13:12ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.36.0https://wiki.skyrien.com/index.php?title=Autobiographical_content&diff=202&oldid=prevSkyrien: /* 2015: The Present */2016-04-02T00:40:28Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">2015: The Present</span></span></p>
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</table>Skyrienhttps://wiki.skyrien.com/index.php?title=Autobiographical_content&diff=187&oldid=prevSkyrien: /* 1985-1995: Birth and Early Childhood */2015-09-26T20:59:07Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">1985-1995: Birth and Early Childhood</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This first period covers birth to the end of early-childhood at Age 10. It starts at the time I was born in Korea, and the entirety of my time in the US before my family moved back to Korea in 1995. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Looking back, I realize that this </del>period was a hugely formative period for the fostering of my core values, joys, and intrinsic curiosity.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This first period covers birth to the end of early-childhood at Age 10. It starts at the time I was born in Korea, and the entirety of my time in the US before my family moved back to Korea in 1995. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This </ins>period was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">obviously </ins>a hugely formative period for the fostering of my core values, joys, and intrinsic curiosity.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This first period covers birth to the end of early-childhood at Age 10. It starts at the time I was born in Korea, and the entirety of my time in the US before my family moved back to Korea in 1995. Looking back, I realize that this period was a hugely formative period for the fostering of my core values, joys, and intrinsic curiosity.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This first period covers birth to the end of early-childhood at Age 10. It starts at the time I was born in Korea, and the entirety of my time in the US before my family moved back to Korea in 1995. Looking back, I realize that this period was a hugely formative period for the fostering of my core values, joys, and intrinsic curiosity.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">My parents euphemistically note </del>that I <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">liked </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"deconstruct" things </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">see how they worked</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Basically</del>, I'd <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">like </del>to take things <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">apart</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">particularly mechanical </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">electrical things (projectors</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">monitors</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">computers</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">motors</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">etc</del>...<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">examine their workings</del>. I was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also given access </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">my dad's PC pretty early, at around </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">age </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quickly mastered DOS enough </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">basically be the tech guy at home</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== Identity ===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Language and ethnic heritage are often one's first experience with their cultural identity after their birth. For me, there was always some amount of tension in my relationship with language. In my earliest years, my vocabulary and language was derived from what I learned at home, and became Korean-focused, given it was what I spoke at home. As a result, while I understood spoken English, I found it harder to express in public. Fortunately, my school had a good ESL program </ins>that I <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">attended while in kindergarten. I didn't think much of it then, but it would be a key experience growing up an America. I didn't have any issues comprehending the written or spoken word; I was just averse to expressing it. Later on, I developed a huge fondness for reading, and quickly became very fluent (aided by media that encouraged me </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">learn more), which gave me more confidence </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">speak out more</ins>. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Speaking two (or more) languages natively (opposed to acquired fluency) is a common experience in American immigrant stories, and I think it's pretty cool to have access to the corpus of culture that language fluency presents</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>I'd <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">love to be able to teach my own kids what I know, and perhaps even the experience of another culture or place. Given how often my family moved, I learned </ins>to take <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the perpetual need to learn in stride and developed a skill and even an enjoyment of adapting to new people, </ins>things, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">situations. Some of this would backfire and result in a search for identity in my second decade</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but at this time</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it helped me to see society as a system that I could come to understand</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and adapt to</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">after some trial and error</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I can certainly note that the quality of education varied from place to place, from teacher to teacher</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Going from 2nd grade in Evanston to 3rd grade in Capron felt like dropping two years of education</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Where you go to school has a huge influence on your experiences and the sense of possibility afforded </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">you</ins>. I was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fortunate enough </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have parents that cared about </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quality </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">education I received</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were able to intervene when it was in my interest, as well as having a strong intrinsic desire </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">explore what's out there</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">always </del>some <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">amount of tension with my relationship with language</del>. In my <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">earliest years</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">my vocabulary and language </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">derived from what I learned at home</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">became Korean-focused, given it </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">what I spoke at home. As </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">result, while I understood spoken English, I found it harder to express </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">public. Fortunately, my </del>school <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">good ESL program </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I attended while in kindergarten. I didn't think much of it then</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but </del>it would be a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">key experience growing up an America. I didn't have any issues comprehending the written or spoken word; I was just averse to expressing </del>it<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Later on, I developed a huge fondness for reading, and quickly became very fluent (aided by media that encouraged me </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">learn more)</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which gave me more confidence to speak out more</del>. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in this time that I developed an obvious interest in how things work. My dad tells me that when I was in kindergarten, my teacher once told him that in school assembly that I paid more attention the projector showing the </ins>some <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">boring film, rather than said boring film</ins>. In my <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">defense</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I'll note that this </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in 1991</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the projector </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an ancient film reel (yes! in 1991 </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">film projector </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </ins>school<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">!) that spun </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">big spool of film from one wheel to another. How is </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*not* awesome to look at? Today</ins>, it would be a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">retro fascination for </ins>it to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be seen anywhere</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">let alone in regular use</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Given how often my family moved</del>, I <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">learned to take the perpetual need to learn in stride </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">developed </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">skill and even an enjoyment of adapting to new people</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">things</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">situations. Some of this would backfire and result in a search for identity </del>in my <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">second decade, but </del>at <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this </del>time, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it helped me to see society as a system that </del>I <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could come to understand</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">adapt to</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">after some trial and error</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I actually do remember doing this, and specifically</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">what </ins>I <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was noticing (</ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">learning as </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6 year old kid) was how the wheels spun at different rates</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">based how much film was in the reel</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the question that I had </ins>in my <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mind </ins>at <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>time <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was on how it kept the film at the same speed. Basically</ins>, I <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was being an early nerd</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of this</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I am proud</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I can certainly </del>note that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the quality of education varied from place </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">place, from teacher </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">teacher</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Going from 2nd grade in Evanston to 3rd grade in Capron felt </del>like <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dropping two years of education. I realize that where you go </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">school has a huge influence on your experiences </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the sense of possibility afforded </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">you</del>. I was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fortunate enough </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have parents that cared about </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quality </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">education I received</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were able </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">intervene when it was in my interest</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">My parents euphemistically </ins>note that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I liked </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"deconstruct" things </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">see how they worked</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Basically, I'd </ins>like to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">take things apart, particularly mechanical </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">electrical things (projectors, monitors, computers, motors, etc...) </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">examine their workings</ins>. I was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also given access </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">my dad's PC pretty early, at around </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">age </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quickly mastered DOS enough </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">basically be the tech guy at home</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''A note on accuracy: This section is likely to be a perpetual draft, and much of it before the present is constructed from what I can recall, personal writings, interviews, and other sources and accounts. Beyond this, as I'm writing this to be a heavily written from the memory of my experience of these memories. Inaccuracies, alternate interpretations, and new conclusions based on uncovered information are wholly possible and over time, likely. And as is intended, as I expect our own interpretation of history, values, and our experience of them will likely evolve over time as well. Be that as it may, I will still strive for factual accuracy <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">whenever possible, </del>and when presenting a conflicting idea, will identify the conflict and clarify salient differences.''</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''A note on accuracy: This section is likely to be a perpetual draft, and much of it before the present is constructed from what I can recall, personal writings, interviews, and other sources and accounts. Beyond this, as I'm writing this to be a heavily written from the memory of my experience of these memories. Inaccuracies, alternate interpretations, and new conclusions based on uncovered information are wholly possible and over time, likely. And as is intended, as I expect our own interpretation of history, values, and our experience of them will likely evolve over time as well. Be that as it may, I will still strive for factual accuracy and when presenting a conflicting idea, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I </ins>will identify the conflict and clarify salient differences <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in memory</ins>.''</div></td></tr>
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</table>Skyrienhttps://wiki.skyrien.com/index.php?title=Autobiographical_content&diff=164&oldid=prevSkyrien: /* 1985-1995: Birth and Early Childhood */2015-07-27T18:17:53Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">1985-1995: Birth and Early Childhood</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There was always some amount of tension with my relationship with language. In my earliest years, my vocabulary and language was derived from what I learned at home, and became Korean-focused, given it was what I spoke at home. As a result, while I understood spoken English, I found it harder to express in public. Fortunately, my school had a good ESL program that I attended while in kindergarten. I didn't think much of it then, but it would be a key experience growing up an America. I didn't have any issues comprehending the written or spoken word; I was just averse to expressing it. Later on, I developed a huge fondness for reading, and quickly became very fluent (aided by media that encouraged me to learn more), which gave me more confidence to speak out more. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There was always some amount of tension with my relationship with language. In my earliest years, my vocabulary and language was derived from what I learned at home, and became Korean-focused, given it was what I spoke at home. As a result, while I understood spoken English, I found it harder to express in public. Fortunately, my school had a good ESL program that I attended while in kindergarten. I didn't think much of it then, but it would be a key experience growing up an America. I didn't have any issues comprehending the written or spoken word; I was just averse to expressing it. Later on, I developed a huge fondness for reading, and quickly became very fluent (aided by media that encouraged me to learn more), which gave me more confidence to speak out more. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Given how often my family moved, I learned to take <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </del>in stride and developed a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sense </del>of adapting to new people and situations. Some of this would backfire and result in a search for identity in my second decade, but at this time, it helped me to see society as a system that I could come to understand, and adapt to, after some trial and error.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Given how often my family moved, I learned to take <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the perpetual need to learn </ins>in stride and developed a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">skill and even an enjoyment </ins>of adapting to new people<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, things, </ins>and situations. Some of this would backfire and result in a search for identity in my second decade, but at this time, it helped me to see society as a system that I could come to understand, and adapt to, after some trial and error.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I can certainly note that the quality of education varied from place to place, from teacher to teacher. I realize that where you go to school has a huge influence on your experiences and the sense of possibility afforded to you. I was fortunate enough to have parents that cared about the quality of education I received, and were able to intervene when it was in my interest.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I can certainly note that the quality of education varied from place to place, from teacher to teacher<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Going from 2nd grade in Evanston to 3rd grade in Capron felt like dropping two years of education</ins>. I realize that where you go to school has a huge influence on your experiences and the sense of possibility afforded to you. I was fortunate enough to have parents that cared about the quality of education I received, and were able to intervene when it was in my interest<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That said, even my few years in rural Illinois was a highly unique experience that today (in 2015) I treasure, despite all the challenges at the time adjusting to a completely different life experience, even as a kid.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Green used to be my favorite color, at least until kindergarten. Then around the age of 9-10, I started to love the ocean, water, and the color blue.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Green used to be my favorite color, at least until kindergarten. Then around the age of 9-10, I started to love the ocean, water, and the color blue.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*In my room since I was 5, I used to have a big geopolitical map that covered the wall by my bed. I recommend every parent of a curious child to put a big map in their room. Seriously. It will expand their mind and their awareness. I also remember when the Gulf War started (when I was 5), that my dad pointed at Iraq on the map and said "these guys are bad." Lol.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Star Trek came into my life pretty early, and I was a fan by age 7. It all started with me accidentally renting 'Star Trek VI', instead of 'Star Wars'. While it wasn't the sci-fi/fantasy/space opera that Star Wars was, I was sold on the future-oriented vision of peace, the cool effects, and the politics, which echoed some of the Cold War detente that my dad had tried to explain to me when the Soviet Union was dissolved. Levar Burton played my favorite character, chief engineer Geordi LaForge, on TNG and I carefully followed it till the series finale which aired on my birthday in 1994. One effect was on my vocabulary, where at school, I was using words and style of speech learnt while watching TNG in my speech and writing, which teachers thought highly. In one example, I got in trouble once in fourth grade for saying "hell", as in "What the hell?" clearly echoing Riker's flabbergast moment from the TNG episode the night before. I can't quite tell if things were just more language-strict in the 90s or if its just because I was younger.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Star Trek came into my life pretty early, and I was a fan by age 7. It all started with me accidentally renting 'Star Trek VI', instead of 'Star Wars'. While it wasn't the sci-fi/fantasy/space opera that Star Wars was, I was sold on the future-oriented vision of peace, the cool effects, and the politics, which echoed some of the Cold War detente that my dad had tried to explain to me when the Soviet Union was dissolved. Levar Burton played my favorite character, chief engineer Geordi LaForge, on TNG and I carefully followed it till the series finale which aired on my birthday in 1994. One effect was on my vocabulary, where at school, I was using words and style of speech learnt while watching TNG in my speech and writing, which teachers thought highly. In one example, I got in trouble once in fourth grade for saying "hell", as in "What the hell?" clearly echoing Riker's flabbergast moment from the TNG episode the night before. I can't quite tell if things were just more language-strict in the 90s or if its just because I was younger.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Once I came in contact with a PC, I never let go. By my late 0s, I was solidly a PC gamer; SimAnt was the first game I ever bought, and by the end of this period my favorite games were Doom, Simcity 2000, and underrated adventure game, Star Trek: A Final Unity. Not that I was opposed to consoles--the first game I ever played was on the NES, and had Sega Genesis and thoroughly enjoyed games like Sonic and Ecco, and had loved the original StarFox on SNES. Still, I loved the depth of control and richness that PC games afforded, also the fact that it appealed to a more educated, mature audience. I liked that, and that paid off hugely for me.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Once I came in contact with a PC, I never let go. By my late 0s, I was solidly a PC gamer; SimAnt was the first game I ever bought, and by the end of this period my favorite games were Doom, Simcity 2000, and underrated adventure game, Star Trek: A Final Unity. Not that I was opposed to consoles--the first game I ever played was on the NES, and had Sega Genesis and thoroughly enjoyed games like Sonic and Ecco, and had loved the original StarFox on SNES. Still, I loved the depth of control and richness that PC games afforded, also the fact that it appealed to a more educated, mature audience. I liked that, and that paid off hugely for me.</div></td></tr>
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