My Introduction
Hello, world.
My name is Jacob Emerick, and I am a web application developer and graphic designer. I also enjoy the outdoors, a good challenge, and learning opportunities.
Though I was born in Camp Pendleton, CA, most of my childhood was spent in a small farming community in Michigan called Port Hope. My parents are former Marines, so I was brought up in a fairly strict family environment where hard work was expected. I flip-flopped between a private Lutheran school and the local public school and was involved in sports and other extracurricular groups. Not only did I excel in the school environment, ending up as the Valedictorian of my class, but I worked between 20 and 60 hours a week as a grounds manager for a small housing development.
When I came to Michigan Tech, I had high expectations of my academic career as a physicist. However, I found a new passion within a year: student leadership. For the next four years I was heavily involved in committees and organizations within the university and managed to make quite a few ...
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