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Computers and I hit it off pretty well and I ended up spending most of my teenage
years adapting to my new homeland and messing with various computers. Indeed, I
sometimes like to think that I learned how to speak English and how to program in
Basic at the same time.
Until my college years, my family and I lived in New York City.
Despite being brought
up as a city-kid, I hated New York - it's dirty, unfriendly, expensive, and crime-ridden.
So when I had the chance to go somewhere else I took it and ended up in upstate New York,
at Cornell University.
I had wanted to major in Computer Science when I started my Bachelor degree, but changed my mind during my freshman year. Instead, I decided to take a broader view of the various disciplines by taking the most flexible of the engineering curriculums: operations research and industrial engineering (ORIE).
The flexible ORIE curriculum at Cornell enabled me to take a large number of courses in
things I am interested in, ranging from computer graphics to economics, from
history to small business consulting. At the same time, I also had
experiences in starting my own company, working for a large company, and serving
as a consultant to a local business.
Soon after I finished my job with Exxon and returned to Cornell, I fell in
love with
this young woman. To my lasting regret, it
didn't work out and I was heart-broken.
It was perhaps because I was emotionally shattered,
or that I was just greedy, that I took the highest paying job I could find. I
ended up
working on Wall Street after completing my bachelor degree.
First, to "round off" my knowledge in computer science, then to chill out in Ithaca and see where life takes me next!