User:Edconrad
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Eric David Conrad was born on the morning of October 17th, 1986 at the Wausau Hospital in Wausau, WI in the United States. His parents Theresa Helen Conrad and David Joseph Conrad created a positive and motivating environment for him to live in. As Eric grew up he went to St. Michael's Catholic grade school until 3rd grade when it was decided that going to a public school would be a better option due to some bullying that had occured. Conrad moved to Weston elementary for school in 4th grade and continued in the D.C. Everest School District through high school.
In high school Eric created a web design business, Exterior Angle Design, and he made roughly 20 websites for clients around the Wausau area. He continued getting better designing by learning PHP and SQL in his spare time. Conrad had already learned to program C when he was in 6th grade over the boredom of Christmas break so he was already familiar with many of the control structures presented. Currently he is working on some advanced web sites that are under non disclosure agreements.
During junior high and high school Eric Conrad was involved in many music oriented groups including Folk Rock Singers, several madrigals, jazz band, concert band, marching band, and his senior year garage band Serotonin. Music was always a large influence in Conrad's life, he grew up to the sounds of Pink Floyd - one of his father's favorite bands and this influenced his musical tastes throughout childhood and high school. Eric began his musical career by taking piano lessons during 4th grade. By 7th grade began playing on Clarinet as a part as a transition program to Tenor Saxophone. Influenced by his brother, Ross Conrad, he decided to join jazz band and was in jazz during 8th and 9th grades. During 9th grade he was also recruited by the chior director for Folk Rock Singers because he had gained much singing experience through singing in church during his Catholic upbringing.
Conrad was given his first guitar as a gift from his father for Christmas to him and his brother. Him and his brother meddled around with it occasionally, but during the summer of Conrad's junior year he really started to get interested into playing guitar he continued to work on getting better. Although Conrad was the lead singer for his band Serotonin, he continued to play guitar to learn how to sing and play. In college at Michigan Technological University he was demoed to sing for a college band, Afterburner Orange, he wrote vocals for two songs making his total formally recorded track list to 5. But, due to lack of significant progress he split from the band to form his own band which is currently a work in progress. He is also working on an acoustic guitar set list singing and playing.
Eric Conrad is currently attending Michigan Technological University for undergraduate studies in Physics due to his interest in how the universe operates, he hopes to apply his interests into a mesh of computational internet algorithms and physics applications to computer hardware design. In the future he intends to also research in undergraduate computer engineering and computer science. His friend Daniel Read Freeman and him often converse on a plethora of topics including economics, religions, physics, math, and various miscellaneous topics.
