About
Hey all! In this section you are going to get to know me better! To start things off. I am a full time student currently attending the University of Cincinnati. I am a Sophomore (second year) and I am majoring in Computer Science. I am a current member of Sigma Phi Epsilon (ΣΦΕ) at Cincinnati and I am also a part-time youth football coach.
When I was younger I always loved to play video games, on the old NES systems, DS's, GameBoys, and many other consoles. I could always sit down and play games, they would never bore me. While growing up I also got into many different sports. Football, basketball, track & field, and even baseball (for a bit). I enjoyed staying active and helping the community in any way I could.
While I was in high school I was in the National Honors Society, Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), Science Club, and Spanish Club. I graduated with around 55 peers and I come from a small town called Hamler. During my time in high school I developed an interest into coding and started to teach myself by looking at different websites for beginners. During my research I stumbled into website development and HTML. I started to dive in, but I wanted to learn more.
I was very sporadic and I wouldn't ever learn one thing. For me, I was intrigued and curious about anything to do with coding and programming. At one point I couldn't sit and learn one language at a time, which looking back at it, wasn't a good idea. I had no clue where to start or anything. I knew that I wanted to code and make cool projects with words on a computer, but I didn't know exactly what kind of projects I wanted to do. Eventually, a few months before graduating I put thought into what I wanted to do with my life.
Did I want to go to college or did I want to go into a trade? I thought back to when I wanted to learn how to code video games, develop websites, and all the other crazy things you can do with words on a computer. That led me to my decision to go to college. I was eager to learn about coding and further develop my, not so broad, knowledge. First semester was basically all general education classes. I had one class where I learned how to code in Python, MatLab, and LabVIEW. That wasn't enough for me and I wanted to learn more. Second semester came around and I had my first Computer Science related class, CS 1. This class taught me the basics of C++ and coding in general. I had a blast, coding labs and homework assignments. It was everything I was looking for. Making games, which weren't too good, algorithms for calculating math problems that would talk a while to do manually, everything in that class was fun.
After second semester of my Freshman year had passed I went home for the summer. I was looking for Co-Ops for the upcoming semester, Fall of 2024. After working all summer, moving houses, searching for Co-Ops, and hanging out with friends, I never got accepted into a Co-Op position. Luckily, the University of Cincinnati has a program for students that do not land a Co-Op. It is called the Experiential Exploration Program otherwise known as EEP. During my Fall Semester on my EEP I could learn about anything I wanted to. I decided on developing a game, and learning more about cloud computing and networking. I did a bit of research on game development and design and came to the conclusion that I was going to use Unity Hub and make a Tower Defense game.
While I was making the game I quickly learned that it was not going to be perfect or even relatively close to BloonsTD. I didn't have the team or time to be able to make something that was going to be perfect. I also noticed that while Unity Hub does help a ton when you are new to making games, it has a lot of drawbacks. There were many functions that I wanted to implement but doing that in Unity would take time that I didn't have. I decided that I would code the game to be functional and playable with as little amount of bugs as possible. I still have not completed the game, although it is functional, I want to complete it eventually when I have time.
While coding the game and working on my EEP for the fall semester, I also got into coaching football for the 5th and 6th grades at my high school. My dad has been coaching and he said that they could use some extra help. I instantly jumped on board and tried to help out in any way I could. Coaching young kids isn't easy and I will be the first one to admit that. Even though it wasn't easy it was 100% worth it. I loved every second I spent coaching and even though I was there to teach them, I learned some things from the kids too.
Now that fall semester has passed I am back in college for my spring semester of my Sophomore year. I am currently taking 16 credit hours of classes and living in the house of SigEp. I have 2 roommates and I am happy to be back in classes. I am currently searching for a Co-Op for the Summer of 2025 and then I will also be looking for one again for Spring 2026. I am taking a lot more classes that are major specific and I am loving every second of it.
I know this isn't much, but I hope you have a better understanding of who I am as a person and what I enjoy doing. That being said, thank you for reading and if you would like to contact me please click on the Contact tab above.