About me
I was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and after being raised in my country for 8 years, moved with my immediate family to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where I studied until I had to go to college. Every winter and summer break, my family and I would go back to Lebanon to visit the rest of my family. There, I went to a robotics camp where kids are taught to build Lego robots (Lego Mindstorms) and program them through an application with icons representing different motors and sensors we can use to complete tasks.
Ever since then, I fell in love with the robotics field, and wanted to become an electro-mechanical engineer (since the age of 12).
In Dubai, I attended a French-Lebanese school (it had elementary school, middle school, and high school in the same establishment), and studied in the French curriculum. In high-school we are given the choice to pursue a scientific path (where math is weighed more heavily than history and geography classes, and science, physics, and chemistry classes are required), or an economic path (where an economics class is required, and history and geography are weighed more heavily than math classes). In grade 12, depending on the direction we took (scientific or economic), we have to choose one course to specialize in. I took the scientific path in high school, and specialized in Physics and Chemistry in grade 12, as I had a deep passion for the two subjects.
The summer before grade 12 of high school, when we start applying to colleges and universities, I was learning how to program in HTML and CSS. This is where I discovered my love for programming and the mathematical aspect behind it. Although granted, HTML and CSS do not have a deep mathematical basis (at least not what I was being taught), after some research I discovered that for other languages, this is the case. The summer before applying to colleges, my dream career shifted from electro-mechanical engineering with an emphasis in robotics, to game programming.
After a lot of research, I discovered that Champlain College has a phenomenal game programming curriculum. Shortly after receiving my acceptance letter, and I decided that this is the college I will be attending.
