User:Garonyldas

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This is the Wikipedia User page for Garonyldas. Here you can find information about me, including my contributions, awards, current projects, affiliations, interests and topics I'm somewhat knowledgeable about. If you have a question for me or would simply like to share your thoughts and concerns, feel free to contact me through my talk page.

Contributions

Created:

Gaius Baltar: Speculation Regarding His Affiliation and Motivations (Not the included sub-section)

Edits and Reverted Vandalism:

Goals and Projects

Expand Go, Diego, Go!
Re-write Go, Diego, Go! to be consistent with Dora the Explorer
Expand Pirates of the Caribbean Online
Re-write WKRZ to remove promotional tone
Help develop/edit articles relating to video games
Patrol articles, watching for and reverting vandalism

Affiliations and Userboxes

(This section will undergo heavy editing over the next few days.)

Languages and Editing

Participating WikiProjects

Computer Equipment, Access, Software and Skills

Online Communities

Awards

I'm hoping to earn some awards through dedication and hard work!

Biographical Information

I'm a 20 year-old female born in Schweinfurt, Germany and raised in Columbus, Ohio. My father is a truck driver and my mother is a homemaker, and I'm the eldest of four children. I have a full brother who's two years younger than me, a half brother and half sister who are 15 and 17 years younger than me, respectively. Despite them being uterine siblings, and despite our age difference, I cherish my relationship with them and hope to serve as not only a role model, but as a friend that they can play with and learn from.

Although I'm relatively new to computers, I'm very familiar with networking, software and hardware components of a computer. I'm mostly self taught, and started my first year of college in fall of 2007 as one of less than 20 female Computer Science majors at Bowling Green State University. I've discontinued my education during the '08-'09 school year for financial reasons, but I hope to transfer to a local school here in Columbus (ideally OSU) and continue schooling, hopefully as soon as the '09-'10 school year. For six months I was an over-the-phone technical support agent on behalf of Verizon for both consumer and business DSL customers, and it's thanks to that experience that I am so familiar with networking and computer software. I'm also a frequent visitor of AnimeMUCK, and find the people there to be exceedingly friendly and knowledgeable about any number of things, including video games and electronics.

Hobbies

I like to keep myself busy whenever possible (after all, life is short), so it's unnecessary to list every hobby I've had over the years. However, several have had a huge impact on my habits, interests and personal knowledge base, and it's through these activities that I've found myself editing Wikipedia.

Video games are a huge influence on the lives of many people, but few have a history with gaming that is as pervasive as mine. I'm extremely fortunate in that both of my parents are avid gamers, and as a result I've been playing video games since I was old enough to hold a controller. I'm a close follower of the Legend of Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario Bros. franchises, but I'll play a game from any genre if it catches my interest. Video games are essential for relieving stress in my life, and they also keep my reflexes, problem solving, reading speed/comprehension and depth perception sharp.

I'm a trained musician from childhood. I've learned to read and write sheet music, and perform professional level pieces on several instruments. I was in choir through grade school, both in school and at church, and once I entered middle school I started learning to play concert flute, which I continued through high school. In high school I completed both available music theory courses and began training with band directors and assisting instructors in the art of marching band show design. I've also been trained in some percussion instruments, mostly mallets and cymbals. Privately I've studied many other woodwinds, including oboe, recorder, ocarina and tin whistle, and I have a very limited experience with pianos/keyboards.

Papercrafting is my newest hobby, but it has had perhaps the most profound impact on my life since I was introduced to video games. I discovered this wonderful art in September of 2007, on the papercraft and origami (/po/) board of 4chan, strangely enough. Since then I've collected hundreds of templates, constructed over fifty models and fully designed five of my own, with fifteen other works in progress and many more ideas that I would like to bring to fruition. Papercrafting is a great way to practice fine motor skills and connect 2D and 3D geometrical relationships. It's through designing papercrafts that I've learned 3D modeling through the Google Sketchup. I hope to start learning to use Blender software later this year.

Leadership Experience

Editing Experience

Throughout middle and high school I was a very active writer, creating many different worlds through short stories and poems. My sophomore year of high school I discovered the school's literary magazine, and started contributing work. Submissions were given to the English dept. office along with a worksheet detailing your writing, but they were often known to get misplaced. Afraid my work would get lost, I instead submitted my work directly to the staff of the magazine, and that's in the process became a member of the staff. Initially I was made the Asst. Art & Photo editor, responsible for picking up artwork from the Art club and classes and making sure they were given correct credit in the final publication, and in my spare time I copy edited submissions and formatted them for publishing along with the rest of the staff.

I quickly noticed that the publishing process was expensive, redundant and outdated. Submitted works were retyped, printed out for editing, typed again, formatted, printed for another edit, typed yet again, and then formatted on the computer once more before printed off once again and shipped in bulk to the printing department at the school district's main office. While maintaining my regular duties I converted the entire process into a digital format (with several backups in case of data loss), and trained the staff to use Microsoft Publisher. I had learned later that year that the school district purchased thousands of licensed copies of Publisher expressly for the high school literary magazine and newspaper groups, and not a single one used the software! My senior year I was granted position as Editor-in-chief of the magazine so that I could continue to streamline the publishing process for future students.

Impressed with my writing in class and my performance as a literary magazine staff member, senior year my English teacher recruited me as a writer and chief copy editor for the school newspaper. While I had no say over content, all pieces were edited for grammar and consistency and I was responsible for the final viewing of the newspaper before the editor-in-chief took a look at it and sent it off to be published. Every staff member was responsible for writing articles, and my submissions reflected my avid interest in new technology. As a result I was appointed Technology correspondent and was responsible for filling the subsequently created tech section of the newspaper. Articles covered the topics such as the latest educational and entertainment software, the season's hottest cell phones and gadgets for students, the popularity and legality of file sharing and the impact the legislative process has on education through technology.

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