User:Mlinthree

Mark Peng Lin was born in 1992 at Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. He is the son of Yanping Lin, a noted professor of Mathematics at the University of Alberta and Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. His mother is Lijun Liu, who graduated as a medical doctor from Liaoning Medical School in China. He has one older brother, David Dragon Lin, and an older sister, Bonnie Lin.

Childhood __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mark grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His family bounced around from various neighbourhoods, Yellowbird to Westbrook Estates to Riverbend. As a child, Mark loved to play with trains. His favourite shows were Pokemon, Thomas the Tank Engine and Little Bear. His favourite meals were McDonalds, instant noodles and pizza.

Mark was bullied and bullied kids.

Mark attended kindergarten in South Knoll Elementary School in College Station Texas. He attended Elementary School at Westbrook Elementary School, Vernon Barford Junior High and Strathcona Composite High School. He was a rambunctious child, often getting into trouble. He was also a bookish child who loved to read. He played a lot with his older brother and got into fights with his older sister. He often got into trouble at school for fighting or being rude. He also brought home poor grades, largely due to his inability to focus in class and lack of nourishment, which was due to the fact that the sandwiches his mother made for him were very soggy. He also forgot to take out his lunches in his backpack, meaning that his backpack got festered up with disgusting, moldy lunches to the great chagrin of his mother. At one point, his father considered him a disappointment. Mark's family went through a tumultuous period when his parents got divorced. The constant fighting and screaming got to him and affected his happiness. Mark changed after that. His brother changed as well. His dad, Yanping Lin, eventually separated and moved away from the family for good in 2007, when Mark was 14. Mark still kept in touch with his father, but the lack of a male role model in the house affected his development.

Mark showed penchant for leadership at a young age, his first grade teacher remarking that he had leadership potential, albeit gives in to frustration.

Education __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In 2010, Mark enrolled at the University of Alberta as an undergraduate in the Economics department. He developed a smoking habit which prevented him from performing well in his studies during first year. Resolving to make his life better, he dropped out and decided to work full time at his local Dairy Queen. After re-enrolling in 2011, he dropped out again in order to work full time at the new London Drugs store in Windermere. In 2012, he re-enrolled in part-time studies while volunteering for Start2Finish, a non-governmental organization dedicated to improving literacy and fitness of elementary children. He also worked as a career consultant in the University of Alberta Career Center Office and served as a Ministry Team Leader for the University of Alberta Navigators, an OnCampus Aide and as a Campaign Manager for the University of Alberta Students Union. An avid traveller with a sense of adventure, Mark took time off from his studies in order to travel to China, Thailand and to visit his brother in New York.

During the summers, he worked as a counsellor at Brightwood Ranch, another NGO, eventually becoming the Main Site Program Director in his second year. While he was there, he developed a love for the outdoors and impacted the lives of the children in a major way. He often dined with the Camp Director, Brent Ankrom, and developed close friendships with his unit leaders. Nicknamed "Po", after Kung-Fu Panda, he was able to develop enough clout whereby Post Office, one of the cabins, was often referred to as "Po's Office".

After finishing his second year at Brightwood in 2015, Mark decided to enroll fulltime in the Classics Program at the University. He dedicated himself to his studies and scored a 3.73 over the next two years. He aced his Latin courses and pulled off great grades throughout his other courses. The summer of 2016, Mark embarked to Roccagloriosa, Italy, as part of the University of Alberta's History and Classics Department Field School, where he helped excavate an ancient site at Roccagloriosa. In 2017, Mark graduated with a B.A. Classical Studies Major and English Minor with Distinction from the University of Alberta.

In 2017, Mark enrolled at York Law School in England in order to study a L.L.B. (Senior Status). While initially performing well in his studies and scoring a first in his Legal Concepts Course, Mark became ill and had to put his studies in hold. Furthermore, a risky business deal in which he lost a lot of money, troubled him and made his condition worse. Mark was forced to return to Canada in order to convalesce. At York, Mark was captain of his law school badminton team, played badminton for his college, attempted to start a Canadian law society, and joined the Heslington East Rugby Team.

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Personal Life __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ An active sportsman, Mark played Badminton at the Derrick Club as a child. He played for both his Junior High and High School, as well as Law School. Mark developed a competitive rivalry with his older brother, David, which persists to this day. The brothers often play chess, hearthstone, World of Warcraft, and more. Mark also enjoys hiking.

Baptized in 2008, Mark does not particularly consider himself Christian, but does believe in a higher power.

Initially disliking the sport, Mark developed a lifelong fascination with the game of hockey. Often spending hours on HockeyDB, HFBoards, and collecting cards. His favourite team is the Edmonton Oilers. Mark credits the 2006 Cinderella Cup Run as the reason for his fascination with NHL.

Mark enjoys playing World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and various games on Steam.

An avid reader, Mark has read over 200 books. His favourite genres are fantasy, biography, non-fiction, fiction, literature, classics, psychology, and history. He is constantly adding to his book collection and looking for new books to read. Currently, he is expanding into the Sci-Fi genre.

Mark has had a few girlfriends. His most serious relationship to date was six months with a girl with a French last name and from a farm.

Mark also likes to collect calligraphy and historical artefacts.

Philosophy __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mark is a big believer in 'getting shit done'. While in University of Alberta, he developed a major interest, and was strongly influenced by, intellectuals Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Eric Weinstein, Peter Theil, Dave Rubin, Jocko Willink, Andrew Yang, Tim Ferriss and other members of the intellectual Dark Web. He is a 'card carrying conservative' with libertarian beliefs, though his time in law school and convalescing has taught him that race does play a major factor in life, and since then, he has shifted more to the left. While he still believes in small government and large private industry, he believes that these industries must be monitored to provide fair and equal diverse representation for Asian Canadians and other minorities.

Mark kinda believes that people are going to talk shit about you no matter what, and it is a big waste of time trying to please everyone. Instead, try to develop your reputation as solid as possible. Also, life may also be an entire simulation, where we are being watched all the time by those in the simulation and those who are operating the simulation. Good shit.

Mark is a big believer in Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the work they are doing to privatize the space industry and put humans into space. He hopes to see colonization of Space in his lifetime, and perhaps even O'Neal Colonies of Jeff Bezos can live up to his word.

Philosophically, he is NOT an Epicurean or an Existentialist. He is more of a Stoic.

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