Hiya! My name is Melissa, but I go by Missy. I'm originally from the Syracuse area, but I live on campus. I do many things in my free time including computer graphics, cookie baking, and talking to random people in the elevator (some people have really great reactions). Also, I used to play several sports namely field hockey, softball, and bowling. I still enjoy bowling especially when I am doing well. Some of my favorite things, other than whiskers and things, are SU basketball (yeah go team!!!), Farscape, Star Trek, and explosions. Ok, think you know me now? Well, come to the meeting and then see! 

Grad School, University of Texas at Austin

I was born on February 12, 1809 near Hodgenville, Kentucky. My father was  Thomas Lincoln and my mother was Nancy Hanks. When I was nine years old my  mother died. My father later married Sarah Bush Johnston, who, proved to be a  wonderful influence as she encouraged me to study and learn. I had a sister, Sarah, and a little brother, Thomas, who died in infancy. My total formal education amounted to a little less than a year. I went to school a little bit at a time and had six different teachers. When I grew to manhood, my height was 6' 4"  and I weighed 180 pounds. In 1842, I married Mary Todd in Springfield,  Illinois. She also was from Kentucky originally. We had four children: Robert  Todd, Edward Baker, William Wallace and Thomas (Tad). I was first elected to political office in 1834 when I won a seat in the Illinois state legislature.  I served four terms there. In 1846 I was elected to serve as a U.S.  Congressman. Then in 1860, I was the choice of the nation to become President. I served in that highest office from 1861 to 1865.
2004 - XXXX: Grad School, University of Colorado

2002 - XXXX: Grad school at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. Working on GEO-600, a gravitational wave detector 

http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jrsmith/