User:B1ng0z

Bingo, bing0., B1ng0z, and other nicknames belong to the Tucson resident Benjamin Schippers.

Ben grew up in northwest Tucson for the majority of his infancy. Due to certian circomstances his mother Julie Schippers made the decision to move more southwest. There he attended Holloway Elementary a poor Amphi School district facility. From grades 1st through 5th with above average marks in science, reading, and social studys. This was a difficult time in Ben's life, many changes where afoot. During these years his family had a internal conflict seperating him from his grandmother, due to arguments from his mother. Also his greatgrand father passing away from pnumonia. His passing later led to a reunion with his granmother and grandfather. Ben's uncle provided support throught his younger years as mainly as a brotherly figure. Being an only child, and bastard son took a heavy mental toll. Mainly conflicts arose in Ben's personality and learning ability that were treated with thearapy from age 8 through 10. At the end of his fith year at Holloway his mother purchased a plot of land back in northwest Tucson. Later during that summer the house was finnished and the family moved in during the summer.

During his summers Ben would spend the weekends and some of the weekdays at the residence of his grandparents where he would activly engage in biclycle riding, swimming, basketball, and exloration of the surrounding desert. Also, he would venture to his great grandmothers residence and relax with the television and his playstation.

He then attended Cross Middle School, a division of Harldson Elementary where the majory of the attendees filter in. He was the typical new student, finding it hard to keep ties with all of his other friends in Amphi middle. Making friends was difficult, but becomming the class clown made him rise the ranks of popularity. But through his antics his grades suffered. Throught middle school he was barley passing any of his classes, attending summer school ever year to make up for his mistakes. Faced with near retention he then accelled through his final 8th year at Cross. Leaving most of his other friends behind due to legality issues dealing drugs, and threats.

Attending Canyon Del Oro high school was a welcome change from the overbearing authority of lower institutions. Being a below average student he never progressed into higher mathamatics or sciences. From his freshman year he compleated Algbra I, English I, World History, and Integrated Sciences. His physical state became an issue, from his youth he was always lean and full of stamina but due to his tendency for injurey he developed knee and ankle problems that would plauge him to this day. Also in addition to his alments of the legs he contracted horrible ingrown toe nails from a moving incident. On both feet he had 4 surgerys to remove the nail bed and treat the surface with an acidic chemical. The nails quickly became infected again, and was almost pressed to amputate some of the tissue. This led to a lack of physical activity, and a massive gain in weight. He then met with a group of friends who introduced him to Diablo II, during his sophmore year. This new circle of friends proved to take Ben into new hights of technical knowhow and led to what he refers to as "The Awakening". Many new developments arose including: A love of electronica music, muiltiplayer video games such as Super Smash Bros, Halo, Mortal Combat, Starcraft and CounterStrike. His new circle of friends created a will to acell in school, during his jounior year he finnished both semesters with a 3.5 GPA. During this year, he took a standard Biology course with intructor Siemankowski, it was because of this class that Ben had chosen to go to college to persue a degree in Cellular Biology. It was also during the summer of that year that he then was employed by Target corperation. He was hired to the garden center and cart attendant feilds. He worked a total of three months before being terminated at his review. During Senior year of high school he worked at Subway, there he realized that college was the only way he would accell through life. Subway taught Ben a lot of lessions, he quickly became Shift Manager and most trusted employee. Through his 8 month carreer he had trained more than 15 employees. Awarded 20$ in an employee preformance survey and was on the crew of a 200 sub hour.

Durring the summer between high school and college he began work as a student employee at the University of Arizona. He worked with his step grandmother in the Main Office of the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research. During that year Ben developed many psycological problems which stemed to long term depression, and what is led to be manic depressive disorder. He suffured through these problems during his first semester of college. Being limited by work he could only take 14 credit hours, dropping spanish 102 it lowered him to 11. His acidemic state suffered due to a lack of motivation from the depression and quickly found himself at the end of a 1.1 GPA. Placing him in academic probation status. That year Ben had taken many vacations to exotic areas such as: Puerto Pinasco (First time out of Country), Lake Apache, and Highlands War (SCA)