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I am an avid Philadelphia Eagles fan, and any given Sunday you'll see me reppin the birds. This is our year. | I am an avid Philadelphia Eagles fan, and any given Sunday you'll see me reppin the birds. This is our year. | ||
| − | I have a wonderful girlfriend named Gina Li, she is a freshman at The University of Chicago (which she thinks is better than Duke) and she is an accomplished violinist, debater, and overall awesome person. She is very interested in psychology and philosophy, and not engineering. | + | I have a wonderful girlfriend named Gina Li, she is a freshman at The University of Chicago (which she thinks is better than Duke, falsely if I say so myself) and she is an accomplished violinist, debater, and overall awesome person. She is very interested in psychology and philosophy, and not engineering. |
==Grand Challenges== | ==Grand Challenges== | ||
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[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/msj.20005/asset/20005_ftp.pdf?v=1&t=h6slce3o&s=a71f3ca90d9db8949d21a7d3db1d2a4c3138e68a Foundations, Promises and Uncertainties | [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/msj.20005/asset/20005_ftp.pdf?v=1&t=h6slce3o&s=a71f3ca90d9db8949d21a7d3db1d2a4c3138e68a Foundations, Promises and Uncertainties | ||
of Personalized Medicine], Bottinger, E. P., Mt. Sinai Journal of Medicine, published April 2007 (print) (published online 21 May 2007), accessed 6 September 2012 (Engineer Better Medicines) | of Personalized Medicine], Bottinger, E. P., Mt. Sinai Journal of Medicine, published April 2007 (print) (published online 21 May 2007), accessed 6 September 2012 (Engineer Better Medicines) | ||
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| + | At first I thought the topology applications in the gallery were the coolest demos because they are awesome looking and way over my head, but when I saw the Earth's Topography Demo I knew that it was my favorite by far. I'm a total cartography nerd and love examining maps and roads and city planning. Even though I'm a math and science guy, I have a soft spot for geography (hence the gigantic atlas in my room back home). This fits really well with what I'm doing in my Writing 101, "Writing Worlds: the power of maps" class right now too. Seeing the 2D and 3D variations is also cool because I didn't know that MATLAB could be used to represent three-dimensional objects until I read these demos. | ||
Revision as of 02:06, 7 September 2012
Background
Hi, my name is Jonathan Kersky and I'm a freshman in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. I was born October 29, 1993 in Winter Park, Florida, and lived in the Orlando suburb of Windermere until I was 3. In 1997 we moved to Buffalo Grove, IL, a N/NW suburb of Chicago. I went to high school at Adlai E. Stevenson High School, where I graduated in 2012.
Interests
I love playing sports. Pretty much all of them. Running is my favorite. I ran cross country and track in high school. However, I've been playing baseball, basketball, and pick up football since I was little, and enjoy the occasional game of squash, tennis, bowling, golf (especially of the miniature variety), and just about any sport you can think of. I am on the club running team here at Duke and plan on playing intramural flag football and basketball.
I am an avid Philadelphia Eagles fan, and any given Sunday you'll see me reppin the birds. This is our year.
I have a wonderful girlfriend named Gina Li, she is a freshman at The University of Chicago (which she thinks is better than Duke, falsely if I say so myself) and she is an accomplished violinist, debater, and overall awesome person. She is very interested in psychology and philosophy, and not engineering.
Grand Challenges
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/msj.20005/asset/20005_ftp.pdf?v=1&t=h6slce3o&s=a71f3ca90d9db8949d21a7d3db1d2a4c3138e68a Foundations, Promises and Uncertainties of Personalized Medicine], Bottinger, E. P., Mt. Sinai Journal of Medicine, published April 2007 (print) (published online 21 May 2007), accessed 6 September 2012 (Engineer Better Medicines)
MATLAB Demos
At first I thought the topology applications in the gallery were the coolest demos because they are awesome looking and way over my head, but when I saw the Earth's Topography Demo I knew that it was my favorite by far. I'm a total cartography nerd and love examining maps and roads and city planning. Even though I'm a math and science guy, I have a soft spot for geography (hence the gigantic atlas in my room back home). This fits really well with what I'm doing in my Writing 101, "Writing Worlds: the power of maps" class right now too. Seeing the 2D and 3D variations is also cool because I didn't know that MATLAB could be used to represent three-dimensional objects until I read these demos.
