Friends
These are people I truly consider to be my friends, not acquaintances. As in, These are people that I would call up just to talk to, or get together with just to hang out. I've probably missed some people, and I'm sorry if I have.
In order of appearance (as best I can remember):
Brian
Brian Colfax Farmer is my oldest friend from home (Dublin, Ohio). He shares my strange sense of humor. His excess intelligence is balanced by his utter lack of direction in life. Ignoring email from close personal friends is one of Brian's favorite leisure activities.
Nick
Nicholas VanHartesvelt is another friend from Dublin. Nick really isn't from Ohio at all, though we happened to both live there for a few years at the same time. Nick loves Music and History, and will probably get some sort of degree from somewhere at sometime in the relatively near future. Currently, Nick is living in Seattle.
Liesel
Liesel Holloway is the last friend from Dublin that made the cut. I got to know her through a girl I dated in High School (who will remain nameless as long as she ignores my emails). She and Nick and I have remained good friends ever since. Liesel is a very happy person with lots of energy. She is smart in the way that will get her a great job, but won't win her any games of Trivial Pursuit.
Tim
Timothy Brandt is probably one of the first people I ever met at Michigan. Tim is a drummer, like me, and played Tenors in the Marching Band our first year. He's subsequently marched two summers with The Phantom Regiment. Tim is a Computer Engineering major, and even more of a babe magnet than me.
Bob
Robert Norris Lance Krentler is another person I met in the Marching Band. Bob is not a drummer though. We met on the band ski trip, and have been ski buds ever since. Bob is an Electrical Engineering major, the second best kind.
Greg
Gregory Stille is probably the first real friend I made here outside of band. Greg and spend most of our time together arguing about obscure and pointless topics or studying Japanese. Greg was an Aerospace Engineering major for awhile, then took a break from college. He tells me he's planning to return and study Japanese this coming fall.
Chip
Richard Jansen is never called by his given name, except maybe on the first day of a new class or something. Chip is a cool guy. I do not understand him at all really, but he's fun to hang out with. He graduated with a double major in EE and CE, and now he's pursuing graduate degrees in Computer Science and Art. Wow.
Beracah
Beracah Yankama has got to be the owner of the largest ego I have ever encountered, but for some reason it really doesn't bother me at all. He got his degree in EE, and new he lives in Baltimore I think. Beracah gets extra bonus points for remembering my birthday. Go Beracah!
Ben
Benjamin George Bachelor is the person chiefly responsible for getting me really interested in anime, and subsequently the study of Japanese. Ben has been incredibly gracious in letting me borrow just about all the anime tapes that I wanted to. Ben is also a CE/EE double major who completed his degrees nn only three years. It blows my mind, really. Now he's off in California studying crazy graduate math stuff.
Katy
Katherine Margeurite Armstrong is really someone who I consider to be a good friend. Meeting Katy made joining Eta Kappa Nu worth it. Katy is a Water Polo diva, and a CE major who enjoys non-engineering courses. She is an academic machine, who only received one non-A grade in her college career. Now she is doing grad school out in New Jersey. Katy once complained that there was not enough space devoted to her on my webpage. So, here, Katy, is some more space:
Matt
Matthew Tundo is someone I got to know Matt half from EECS 380, and half from seeing him at Animania screenings. He shares a lot of my tastes in music and games. Matt has a Computer Science degree, arguably the best one offered by the college of LS&A. Matt got me a job at Beyond Interactive. Now he works for a startup in Ann Arbor called Aereous.
Michelle
Michelle Renae Stocker is my beautiful, charming, and excessively tolerant girlfriend. She is Mi-chan for short, and she puts up with all my crap. As if that wasn't enough, she actually seems to enjoy watching anime with me. I just can't say enough, so I'm not going to try. Michelle is a Geology major with plans to pursue a graduate degree in paleontology.
Yuka
Yuka Makioka (牧岡 由香) is my only Japanese friend. I met her last summer. She's a graduate student at Eastern Michigan University majoring in Communications. She's Greg's ex-girlfriend and my primary source for knowledge of Japanese culture. Last summer she was gracious enough to let me stay with her parents in Tokyo for a few days when I first arrived in Japan.
Graham
Graham Edwin Lanz and I met my freshman year, but we didn't actually become friends until I joined the bass drum section my Junior year. G-Luv is another outcast from Ohio, but he's from the Cleveland area, so he prefers the Indians to the Reds. Graham is one of the nicest, well-liked people I know. Despite his somewhat lewd sense of humor, he's still a big hit with the ladies. Currently Graham is attending graduate school at George Washington University studying Security Policy.
Janel
Janel Marie Owens (aka BUN) is another bass drummer. She is a year younger than me, so she hated me for a year when I played snare drum next to her, then decided I wasn't so bad when I joined her section the following year. Janel just graduated this year with a degree in history. She's getting married next fall, so that will make her the first one of my close friends to wed.
Al
Alan John Gillard is a dancing machine. Yet another bass drummer, Al is two years younger than I. He is a student of materials science and engineering. Al is now in charge of the Michigan bassline, and he runs a tight ship. Coincidentally, I will be living next door to Al next year.
Jamie
James Halvor Bonsall is more exciting than I will ever be. Another member of B2K, Jamie spent only one year in the bassline, but captured our hearts nonetheless. Like me, Jamie is an EECS major. Be on the lookout for his band Scraping Teeth, and their hot new single, "Doom (Blood Comes Out)".
Tosin
Tosin Morounfoluwa Akinmusuru is late. I'll write something more when he gets here with my Blimpy Burger.
Alicia
Alicia Marie Gehle is someone I met through Engineering Honor Council. She's very cool and easy-going. She's an mechanical engineering major. This year we're living together with two other girls in a 3-bedroom apartment. By the way, the middle of her name sounds like fish. It's uh-lih-sha, not uh-lee-sha. She hates that.
Satsuki
Satsuki Takahashi (高橋 五月) is technically my second Japanese friend. However, she's 2nd generation American, so not really. Regardless, Satsuki is super-cool. We met in my 3rd year Japanese class, and after talking for a little while we discovered that we both lived in Dublin, Ohio at the same time when we were younger, but never met. Satsuki later moved to California, and had a much cooler childhood. Now she's at michigan studying EECS.
Dan
Dan Hostetler is a fellow University of Michigan Computer Science (or maybe Engineering) graduate. Though we were undergraduates at the same time, I never knew him while I was in school. Dan lived in the coops while in school and met Greg. Greg introduced us last summer ('02). Dan and I (and Greg and Scott) usually play disc golf together, but in the last year Dan has taken an interest in Ultimate as well, playing with the three of us in the fall and spring recreational leagues. Currently, Dan works in Ann Arbor at Comshare, and has his own commercial veture in an online course scheduler for U-M students.
Scott
Scott Hale is another recent U-M grad and veteran of coop living. Scott's degree is in Anthropology, I believe. He now works for the coops as the "ICC Maintenance Education Coordinator". However, like all of us, his real focus is on disc sports. Scott is getting married this summer ('03), but that's OK because Scott is really old. Scott took some time off before college to go defend our freedoms (and depose Noriega) as an Army Ranger. That's why he's old. Nontheless, I'll be happy if I'm as athletically active as Scott is when I'm as old as he is.
