User:Daltonmalalton

About me
My name is Dalton Ray Hammond and I am 18 years old. I am currently a Biology major at the University of Pikeville. I was born in Findlay, Ohio but I moved here when I was only two years old, so I consider the mountains of Kentucky my home. I plan on becoming a veterinarian. I have had an interest in the sciences since I was young, so, when I was offered full paid tuition to the University to Pikeville, I was ecstatic to know I could pursue my dreams without the worry of financial strain. I suppose I should start at the beginning, that’s where most stories start right? My love for the sciences began when I was very young. I would say it all started when I was about five years old; when I was this age, I was fascinated about animals and how they acted. Now, most would say that this was a normal thing for children and I would agree if I was observing just normal animals, but I was fascinated by the two Burmese pythons my father had. We had a male that was 12 foot long and a female that was 9 foot long. I would spend my day just sitting there watching them roam through the house (They were much too big to really stay in a cage). As I got older. I started going to work with my father when I would have days off of school. My dad was the boss at a waste water treatment plant, which doesn't sound like an extravagant job but everything about it intrigued me. He would have to travel to places around the county collecting water samples, which lead me to my first lab equipment encounter. When I would go into his office, the walls were lined with test tubes and beakers. My favorite thing was always playing with the magnetic stirrer. I would perform what I called experiments which was really just putting soap into a beaker of water and putting it on the stirrer. It wasn't much at the time but it was a passion.

Alright, I suppose now I should get off my scholar side and cover more of myself as far as personality and such goes. I would like to say I am one of the most carefree people in the world, however, oddly enough all my friends are the biggest group of worrywarts I have ever seen but I don't think its because of their worrying that I am friends with them it has to be more of our group awkwardness and just all around weirdness. I must say my friends are a large part of my life. Being in college I really don't get to spend time with my family as much as I would like so my friends have became more or less family. I currently stay in an apartment with my cousin in downtown Pikeville it is far from being a five star resort but its quaint and suits me and her very well. However, that might simply because both of are social introverts and once we are home we just kind of hide in our rooms till the next morning. Out of all my friends I am easily the least social and it bothers my friends from time to time because they begin to think I do not want to be around them but in reality its just that my love for sleep surpasses all things in my life. I just enjoy peace sometimes, you know? Now onto something different, I also believe I am the most diverse person I know because all through my life I have always been the kid known as the rocker/pot head they kind of get combined into the same category but you know dark clothes, heavy metal, that kind of stuff right? Well once people get to know me they begin to discover that no matter how I look there are days that you may get in my vehicle and I am listening to country then the next song that comes on may be black metal and then after that hip-hop. I refuse to be one of those people that get into something and then become like oh yea that's all I like and nothing will ever be as good as this thing I currently like. Things like that seem to more or less just eat at my soul. I will also always say I despise exercise with a passion but I am at the gym almost every day. Contradictory right? Well I can promise I never run.

Tech Side
I would like to consider my a gamer/computer geek although I have never considered going into computer sciences or anything like that I have always been fascinated by electronics and how they work ever since I was a little kid I have been playing video games and getting on a computer whenever I could. I recall when I was probably about 7 my grandparents had an old dell desktop with windows 95 on it and they had bought me a computer game for it. I still remember it like it was yesterday. I can't recall what the game was exactly called but it was a like revamped version of Pong like the old school ball and stick Pong. When the first bought it they had no idea how to install and neither did I but I knew I was going to try... turns out it was incredibly easy but for me? That was a big deal at the time! It sparked excitement in my body I played that game for hours and hours (Probably why I wear contacts now) till I literally could not stay awake anymore. Since then I have nonstop played every little game I can no matter how awful it was I would consider not the effort put into the graphics or something like that it was the work a developer would put into a story that always caught my attention the small little things that took effort to find that was to me what a game was truly about. It was always about true love for what you were doing. That is how I still play each and every game to this day. My love for technology extends well beyond video games however I am a owner of PlayStation, Xbox, Toshiba Laptop, HP desktop, Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX powered with android "Jelly Bean" software, and an Amazon Kindle Fire. Now this is just a list of what I own that I still use. The list could be more extensive but I would prefer not to bore you with lists. The point to be proven is that no matter the product no matter the software or manufacturer I prefer to take the time and effort to look into the work a developer has done to a product to truly appreciate not the label it carries.

Wikipedia, the world uncensored
Wikipedia to me has been something I have been using since I was very young. I actually still recall my first encounter with Wikipedia. The first time I had ever used Wikipedia I couldn't of been over 9 and I was at my cousins house both of them were older than me but one is 5 years older than me so when his friends were up me being the little kid I am watched everything they would do and such because I looked up to them. Well, my cousins friend, Ricky was his name, was on my cousins desktop and they were watching a comedy show and did not know a lot about the guy so Ricky decided to get on the internet and search for him but he did not get on a regular search engine but he went to Wikipedia and it fascinated me because it was unlike anything I had ever used. The fact that you could use it in so many different languages blew my mind. My thoughts on Wikipedia still remain the same but now I actually know what good I can use Wikipedia for. I have learned basically anything I need to know I can go to Wikipedia and find it. It has became the only encyclopedia I use anymore. I know some will say Wikipedia is unreliable but those are people that do not realize how much time and effort the people who write and volunteer their time to Wikipedia actually care what is going into it. So, I guess you can say I am pro-Wikipedia.