(Education)Where I learned it
Education
Two chapters. The Trabuco Hills years where the building started, and Computer Science at UC Irvine right now. Pick one.
High School
Trabuco Hills High School, Mission Viejo, CA · IB Diploma Programme, Class of 2024. First programming projects, club flyers, wallpapers, academics, and awards.
TRABUCO HILLSEnter
College
University of California, Irvine · B.S. Computer Science, Class of 2028. Coursework, campus life, and the apps I ship as Lead Mobile & Backend Developer here.
UC IRVINEEnterThe Mascots Five schools, four animals
Nearly every school I have gone to picked an animal, and I have been each of them in turn: a hawk, then a roadrunner, then a mustang, and now an anteater. The first school of the five, before any of that, never gave me one.
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01 · First school
None
Minaret Academy 2011 – 2015grades K to 3Kindergarten through 3rd grade at the Islamic school in Anaheim, and the one gap in the row: no mascot on record anywhere I can find, and none I ever knew.
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02 · Elementary
Hawks
Cielo Vista Elementary 2015 – 2018grades 4 to 6The marquee out front put it plainly: “It’s a great day to be a HAWK!” There is a photo of me standing under that sign in September 2016, backpack on.
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03 · Middle
Roadrunners
RSM Intermediate 2018 – 2020grades 7 and 8“Home of the Roadrunners” is printed on the student ID card itself, on the line directly under my name.
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04 · High school
Mustangs
Trabuco Hills High School 2020 – 2024Mission Viejo, CAFour years of it, and in the last weeks of senior year the school sign read “Congratulations THHS Mustangs” on the way in.
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05 · College
Anteaters
University of California, Irvine 2024 – 2028Irvine, CAThe current one, and the only one of the five with its own hand signal and its own war cry. Zot zot zot.
What I Learned year by year
The camps, the classes and the languages I taught myself, one school year at a time: where I was, what I picked up, and every language I could write by the end of it.