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I attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and graduated in 2004. While I was there, I helped form the fencing club and was very involved with Shakespeare Troupe. I was in the Astronomy research lab and took a boatload of APs. Outside of school, I fenced competitively and was a Support volunteer for LiveJournal. I also worked on a few political campaigns and was a student representative on the county's Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee.
After graduating, I worked at Best Buy for the summer, where I learned that I do not want a career in retail. In the fall of 2004, I started as a freshman at Harvard. After a couple Computer Science classes, I chose CS as my concentration. I spent the next summer in Philipsburg, Montana as an unpaid IT intern at Project Vote Smart, where I learned a ridiculous amount about websites and the importance of backing up your files and I helped to save Democracy. That fall, I was a teaching fellow for the intro CS class. The summer after my sophomore year, I worked as the Director of E-Commerce at Let's Go Publications.
I took the following semester off from school, living in Cambridge and interning in the IT department at the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. I had a great time there, and I went back to school for the spring semester. I spent the summer with SPIRE-EIT at ISU, where I played with Second Life and learned lots about HCI. In the fall, I started working at school as a UA. This summer, I will be interning with Next Jump, and I will finish my college career with SEA Semester in the fall.