User:JuanG-NJITWILL

My name is Juan Gomez; I was born and raised in Colombia. I came to the United States when I was 17 years old. Then I decided to enroll in High School for a few years to learn the language and get familiar with the new culture. Even though the study part of high school was easy for me, making friends and socializing was the real challenge for me. I was very slow to pick up the language and the culture and customs just seemed too different to what I was used to.

I finished High School with a pretty good GPA and with a good after school curriculum which helped me get into NJIT with a fair amount of Scholarships and Grants.

Since I was a kid I had been pretty good with math. I used to fail two to three classes every year, but in math I was always the best of my class. This made my teachers and parents very mad. They were constantly arguing to me that how was it possible I could fail those easy classes, and at the same time be the best in math class. My answer was just that math is what made sense to me the other classes did not offer any interest to me.

Wikipedia had been very helpful on previous projects and research papers that I have done. It is the starting base. Usually before starting any in-depth research, I come to Wikipedia and get a broad view on the topic. At the same time, it links me to related topics and other developed works that might relate to what I am looking for.

As far as editing in Wikipedia, I have not done it before. It is a new experience for me, which I look forward to learn and get the most out of it.

I am a senior majoring in Industrial Engineering.