Biography

Welcome! I am a freshmen physics major here at Stony Brook University. Hailing from Coram, New York, only twenty or so minutes away from Stony Brook, I attended Longwood High School, the place where I first developed my love for the sciences. It always seemed to me that my favorite subject and projected career path took their roots in the science course I was taking at the time. I was engrossed by AP Biology in my freshmen year, fascinated by the material of AP Chemistry in my sophomore year, but I was ultimately enthralled by my AP Physics course in my junior year. I owe a lot of what I find in physics today to my teacher then, Mr. Qua. His seemingly spurious scribbling on the chalkboard always resulted in a new perspective or idea. Carried through the course by his enthusiasm, I developed my own. Physics, to me, became some sort of order in the chaos of the world that surrounds us all. It became the description of the events I took for granted every single day of my life until that point.

I am here in the Laser Teaching Center with my high school friends Brandon Yalin and Jay Rutledge. Now I am looking to get my feet wet in the world of research through the Laser Teaching Center. This will be my first experience researching, for the most part, independently, and, in fact, it will be my first experience working in a laboratory environment. I hope to learn as much as I can, and continue to narrow down my interests.