User:Michaelchilliard

Hello there,

My name is Michael and I'm from Traverse City, Michigan. I homeschooled all the way up through high school, attended Northwestern Michigan College where I received my ASA, and I'm currently at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI, where I will be receiving my BA in Psychology. I'm currently leaning toward transitioning into a pre-med program followed by medical school, hopefully in Michigan (it's generally cheaper that way, and Michigan's Med. schools are awesome).

Apart from school, I enjoy the arts. My favourite instrument is the piano, and I also enjoy playing the drums. I've been doing photography for several years now, and I'm branching out into watercolour and mixed media work, too, which is a lot of fun. I'm hoping to start actively selling my art to help pay for my college expenses. What else? I also really enjoy reading and writing. I love reading everything from textbooks to sci-fi, but I probably enjoy fantasy literature the most (the Lord of the Rings, the Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter and the Percy Jackson series are all favourites).

I've worked a wide variety of jobs. I've flipped burgers (well, actually, at Burger King, you don't flip the burgers, so much as pick them up off the broiler with tongs...), worked as a barista at a coffee shop, done web design, worked with a film production studio, and even some sound engineering, and this last summer I worked the front desk at a hotel — and those are just (most of) the regular "off-campus" jobs I've had. At Northwestern Michigan College I worked in the library, on the Technology Help Desk, and in the Educational Media Technologies department (often working directly with professors or with the school's instructional designer). Now that I'm at Michigan Tech, I work as a coach at the Multiliteracies Center, which has been my favourite job so far; there, I coach study teams for the World Cultures classes, work with walk-in and one-time appointments, and also have regular weekly appointments with students — it's a blast. I'd work there even if I wasn't getting paid.

Okay, well, now you (the great and mysterious audience of cyberspace) at least know a little about me. Now we can all go eat s'mores and sing kumbaya and have jolly good fun.