Quick Biography
Name: Sarah
Location: State College, PA, USA
Profession: Graduate Researcher
Field: Computer Engineering
Age: Mid-20s

General Information

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Hi, I'm Sarah, a friendly sort of geek girl who is presently living and working at The Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania in the eastern portion of the United States of America. I'm a graduate student in computer engineering and hope to be a generally likable person, though you're welcome to disagree. Most of my contributions and edits are small by intention as I get a sense of how I fit in here at Wikipedia and what my proper contributions can be other than userboxes and grammar work. That said, I'm sure that I'll eventually break down and totally revamp the Blue Gene node in a fit of nerd.

It would appear as though I have a significant obsession with userboxes, don't you think? I think they're a cool feature and they're sadly one of the major things that attracted me here, after seeing how pretty and interesting some other user pages were. I would like to know, however, why are there none that deal with Neil Gaiman, makeup, stuffed animals, those adorable little hamsters, or cookies?

Other things about me... I maintain a personal Live Journal which is not publically-readable. I like chocolate, pizza, sushi, pancakes, cats, bunnies, other assorted rodents, and diet soda. I do not have three arms, but I do have two arms and two legs.

If you'd like to talk, feel free to beep me here via my talk page or via email. I love to talk to people and feel that I am a pretty extroverted person, apparently scoring as an ESFJ on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, though I routinely also score as ESFP. I think I'm a good blend between extraverted feeling and extraverted sensing, so I agree with the test! Woo! I guess I mean to say by that that I'm a chatty sort of person and love to meet new people, so feel free to spread some love my way!

Politics

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I feel that I am super-liberal, and sadly feel that I have to be in order to carry out my master plan of continuing to live in a free society. Unfortunately, I don't get to vote as liberally as I'd like, because I don't think that there are any respectable political parties in the US that are popular enough that voting for them isn't voting "for the enemy" in the current political climate, so these guys usually get my vote, and I think that's sad.

If you spend much time talking with me about politics, I may come off as anti-Christian, but I don't think I am so much as I am pro-evolution and anti-creationism and also anti-homophobia, which is bad. Yay for queerfolks! I also feel that I come off as slightly rabidly feminist sometimes, but don't want to be confused with someone who "hates men." I love men! However, I strongly disagree with many of the gender conventions that US society has in regards to how women are casually treated as inferior, and how language is made generic by making it masculine.

On the other hand, unless you're a member of Westboro Baptist, chances are I'm happy to have a friendly conversation with you! I am a friendly sort of girl and do not mind the people that I talk to differing with my opinion so long as everyone is polite!

Pages That I Care About

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User
 This user is female.
  This user is a bi female.
 This user is a female in a same-sex marriage.
 This user identifies as a femme.
ESFJThis user's MBTI type is ESFJ.
 This user is a Virgo.
 This user is a university student.
BEThis user has a Bachelor of Engineering degree.
 This user lives in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 This user is interested in contributing to articles on panic attacks and related disorders.
ubx-5This user uses entirely too many userboxes.
 This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.
Interests
 This user enjoys singing.
 This user drinks hot chocolate.
 This user drinks green tea.
  This user eats sushi.
 This user loves to eat pizza.
 This user eats chocolate.
 
This user is interested in beauty.
 This user is interested in politics.
 This user takes time to
eat the flowers.
 This user plays Dance Dance Revolution (or another dance game such as In The Groove or StepMania).
^_^This user reads manga.
 
This user maintains a blog.
LJThis user maintains a LiveJournal.
NinjaThis user is a NINJA!
Politics
dem This user supports the U.S. Democratic Party.
  This user supports the legalization of same sex marriage.
  This user identifies as queer.
   This user supports gender equality.
  This user supports equal rights for queer people.
  This user is an ally of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans community.
 
SOFFA
This user identifies as a significant other, friend, family, or ally of one or more transgender, transsexual, or genderqueer people.
  This user is not a biological parent.
 This user believes it is every citizen's duty to vote.
Language
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
AmE-x This user prefers American English and believes it's everyone else that has it wrong.
A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma.
they
he or she
This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.
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gb-0This user cannot tolerate any form of Gibberish language, and is therefore easily emotionally traumatized by The Sims.
Wikipedia
  This user is a member of Wikipedians against censorship.
 This user does not understand mean people. Please be nice.
 This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one.
vn-1This user page has been vandalized once.
 This user tries to do the right thing. If she makes a mistake, please let her know.
 This user believes that only articles need reflect a NPOV, and that displaying political, religious, or other beliefs using userboxes and user categories should not be banned.
Computers
 This user runs macOS.
 This user contributes using Safari.
 This user thinks Apple Inc. products are cool.
cvg-0This user does not play or is not interested in video games.
C-3This user is an advanced C programmer.
PerlThis user is just another Perl hacker.
PHPThis user can code PHP.
JavaThis user can program in Java.
objcThis user can program in
Objective-C.
Quasar Jarosz/Userboxes/c++-3This user is an advanced Quasar Jarosz/Userboxes/c++ programmer.
bash-2This user is an intermediate bash programmer.
<html>This user can write HTML.
reThis user writes regular expressions.
XMLThis user can write XML.
xhtmlThis user can write XHTML.