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I am currently a fifth-year computer science major attending Hendrix College, where I am also a pitcher for the Hendrix Warriors Baseball Team. I am originally from Kapolei, Hawaii where I attended Kapolei High School and also played baseball there. I love playing video games, watching movies/YouTube/anime, and working out.
I grew up obsessed with sharks and dinosaurs and originally wanted to become a marine biologist. At the start of high school, I wanted to work in forensics and the criminal justice department. However, I got more into technology and loved working with my hands and solving puzzles. As a junior in high school, I got into the Health Academy section of my high school and enjoyed learning about the human body, which somewhat led me to the desire of becoming a nurse or some other career in the health industry. Still, I was pretty set on working in cybersecurity or becoming a programmer.
When I got to college, I struggled extremely in Data Structures (I skipped Foundations of Computer Science because I took AP Computer Science in high school). I was the last to finish in every lab and had no idea what was going on in lectures. I also had a professor who was new and whose first language was not English which was not helpful. It got to a point where I was about to switch my major to become a Health Science major and become a nurse. I had a talk with my advisor who understood my struggle and did not try to convince me to stay or switch, but still was able to put the thought in my head to just stick with it and see it through. I passed the class with an A and kept going and kept working hard and now I am a fifth-year computer science major just two semesters away from graduation.