User:Jcarkeys
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- This user would prefer the username jcarkeys. The initial letter is capitalized because of technical limitations.
| This is a Wikipedia user page.
This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jcarkeys. |
| Wikipedia:Babel | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||||||
| Search user languages | |||||||||
Contents |
[edit] Biography
My birthday is 6 October 1988. I live in New Melle, Missouri
[edit] Education
I graduated from Westminster Christian Academy in Creve Couer, Missouri as a member of the Class of 2006. I'm going to be attending Truman State University in the fall of 2006.
I will be entering Truman with 42 hours of credit from taking AP tests. This will give me sophomore standing and enable me to graduate in three years. I will be pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Political Science and Economics.
I also plan on enrolling at law school. Specifically my goal is to enroll at Yale Law School where I will pursue a J.D. degree. I would very much like to specialize in Constitutional law. Ultimately, I would like to be a justice on the Supreme Court.
Of course, that's all tentative. I have this love of money. Analyzing money and speculating on money and the movement of money very much entices me. I would love to become an economic analyst/anything that deals with money, really. If I could take over Allan Sloan's job writing for Newsweek and having a weekly segment on Marketplace.
In the 2005-2006 school year, I participated in the national We The People contest hosted by the Center for Civic Education. It is a program designed to enhance civic education and civic virtue, as well as providing students the experience of a mock congressional hearing. We won the Missouri state competition and proceeded to the national competition in Washington, DC. The highlights of the trip to DC were not provided from the actual contest, but from the great time spent with friends from my school but aslo from the team that won the Wisconsin state competition from Heritage Christian School. Competitive highlights were placing 14th in the nation and (unwillingly) debating the merits of Proposition 14 with Vice Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, Justice Nancy A. Baker. I don't really remember much else about the competition, just that it made me very nervous.
In the summer of 2005 I participated in research at WashU, specifically in the physics department. The lab was in the field of research is thin film deposition and other areas with regards to material physics. However, my research was focused primarily on the interaction of light and various surfaces.
[edit] Hobbies
I have numerous hobbies. My primary hobby is in the field of photography. I own a Canon Digital Rebel XT and have since replaced the stock lens with a Canon 17-40mm f/4L lens. I also own the 28-135mm USM IS lens. It's something I thoroughly enjoy, and my work is available online.
Also, I'm an enthusiastic musician. I play the bass clarinet for my school's concert band. With our band we have received the highest marks at every festival we have participated. This is my fifth year playing the bass clarinet and I played the Bb soprano clarinet for a year prior to that. I also play the tenor sax, this time with our jazz band. I picked up the sax last year. I clearly favour the sax and play it more, but I'd still consider my self best on the bass. I helped form our jazz band last year, and at festival we earned highest ratings. I also played in a sax quartet where we received superior ratings (the highest possible) both at district level competition and at a state wide level.
I love jazz. It seriously is the most amazing thing ever. Coltrane is my idol.
Also, I'm highly involved with politics. I'm involved with a political science competition with a focus on the philosophy and philosophical history behind the basis of the Constitution. I love discussing federalism and extolling the virtues of a small republic. However, I would side with Hamilton in an argument with Jefferson. I don't know why, really, as I'm all for delegating as much as possible to the states, yet I feel that in all of those things that the federal government has authority in, it should be absolute and incredibly powerful, capable to impose its rules and laws with absolute authority. I side with the libertarian line of political thinking and therefore feel the Republican Party is most suited for me as in many ways my capitalist intentions peer through and side with money before liberties and I'm more pragmatic than idealistic.
I also enjoy architecture, specifically the architecture style art deco. The Chrysler Building is one of my favourite buildings as a result of this. I, however, almost detest the style of the 60's and 70's. I really don't like it, blech.
[edit] Wikipedia Life
Well, I don't think one could call me an active contributor to the Wikipedia cause. I mostly find articles through either doing random searches, or by digging through links exclusively from one starting page. If I find errors, I change it immediately. I try and go through and fix things. I'm not a fan of writing articles or making major changes, I applaud those who can. However, it's not truly in my personality to really make pages or make major changes. I'll go through and maybe start something and let others fix it up later, but never a real article on my own.
I hate trying to figure out Wiki formatting. It seems in many ways either too limiting or too convoluted. Yeah, it beats HTML, but there are so many tags and different stub categories, etc etc, that it's almost impossible to find them all, not to mention a lack of a central directory of codes. Maybe there is and I haven't discovered it yet, I'd be greatly appreciative if you told me if there was.
I however, love to just read articles. There's such a wealth, especially in the highly scientific/non pop culture articles. There is an absolute truth in the obscurity, vandals don't tread on articles on things they don't understand, which I appreciate.
