100 things about me (Part 2 of 10)
Monday, January 17, 2005
The Undergrad Years:
- 11. UCLA was my second choice for university, the first was Stanford. I didn't get in to Stanford.
- 12. I picked Chemistry as my major (a mistake, ha ha) and was planning on going to med school.
- 13. I found myself not motivated for any classes except for Math, so instead of flunking out of college, I changed my major to Applied Math.
- 14. I lived in the undergrad dorms of UCLA for four years (Hedrick Hall), plus three more years in the graduate dorm (Mira Hershey Hall). Why so many years? Convenience, mainly. I got guaranteed housing running movies and doing other audio-visual projects (slide shows, DJ for parties, setting up for comedy clubs and...aerobics) for our dorm.
- 15. This was when I started collecting LP and 45 records and dabbling into sound equipment - my second year in college.
- 16. One of my roommates in the dorms - we roomed for four years out of seven, was an art prodigy. He studied animation as a grad student and went on to direct episodes of "The Simpson", "King of the Hill", and "Family Guy".
- 17. Somehow I applied to be a D.J. at the campus radio station, and somehow they hired me. I still remember reading the station I.D. : "Radio home of the Bruins, this is UCLA radio K -L - A, 83AM, 99.9 Cable FM, Los Angeles." Thanks, Bob Anderson, for getting me started in radio.
- 18. Was never a Greek, and damn glad I wasn't.
- 19. Proudest academic moment: Got an "A" in Math131A - arguable the hardest undergrad Math class there was at UCLA. I aced the final by scoring 30 out of 100, the class average was 15. Yes!!!
- 20. Found my calling out of the UCLA Catalog one night. I was flipping through it one night during my junior year, looking for graduate programs I could apply. I almost got to the end of the thick book when I came across Biostatistics in School of Public Health. I thought to myself, "Hey! I can do this!"
Coming up next: Part 3 - Grad School and My Strange Relationship with God
