User:Paleblue

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Introduction
SoE-4 This user has a near-native understanding of Southern English and has spent a lot of time in the South.
This user is female.
YA This user is a young adult.
NG This user's alignment is Neutral Good: the "Benefactor."
This user is a university student.
This user lives in the state of Massachusetts.

However, this user is not a native.
This user is of Polish ancestry.
鼠 This user was born in the year of the Rat.
This user is a Sagittarian.
WPI This user attends or attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute.


Language
en This user is a native speaker of English.
en-
us-N		 This user is a native speaker of American English.
Mix This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.
less & fewer This user understands the difference between less & fewer.
their / there / they’re This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they’re worse than their own children at spelling!
met? This user prefers metric units, but, having grown up in the U.S., cannot relate to them.
prog-1 This user is a beginning programmer.
php-1 This user is a beginning PHP programmer.
mysql-1 This user is a beginning MySQL user.
HTML-3 This user is an advanced HTML user.
css-3 This user is an advanced Cascading Style Sheets user.
LaTeX-3 This user is an advanced LaTeX user.
This user enjoys do-it-yourself projects.


Pasttimes
This user recently discovered how to use userboxes.
You just lost The Game.
This user is a Board Game Geek.
This user settled Catan.
This user enjoys playing
bridge.
This user enjoys playing
spades.
This user enjoys reading science fiction.
CIV This user plays one or more versions of Civilization.
塊魂 Na na-na na-na na na na na Katamari Damacy!


Computer Stuff
This user uses Gmail as a primary E-mail service.
Kopete This user uses Kopete to chat on IRC and other networks.
P2P
This user uses P2P file-sharing services unashamedly.
This user contributes using Konqueror.
g This user contributes using Gentoo Linux.
This user contributes with
KDE.
This user uses the Blackbox window manager, or a derivative.
This user contributes using Kate.
This user contributes using Nano.

I am a fifth-year student at WPI, finishing up a BS in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science.