Eventually I plan to go to medical school and hopefully practice endocrinology or maybe neurology or urology. I might even try to hybridize my expertise on HF and accident-causation in complex systems with my medical experience so as to help hospitals to be that much safer and reduce any sort of malpractice. I have studied a decent amount of Human Factors, systems complexity, systems safety, and accident-causation, mostly through an aviation paradigm.
While my college education has taught me to always be skeptical and take things with a grain of salt, challenging sources of information and credentials, I usually trust Wikipedia as a source of information for fields that don't require professionally edited, peer-reviewed, and published information. I hope that my additions and edits can help make it even better (trying to be bold)! See below for new pages I've created. I'm also concerned about the Gender bias on Wikipedia, so trying to do my part.
Generally in life I mean well, and try to teach my friends and family stuff that I've learned, but occasionally this makes me come across as an arrogant "know-it-all," when really it's just that I'm a pretty big nerd and super excited about learning.
When I was younger my family used to have a few ferrets, guinea pigs, and hamsters. Eventually I'd like to get a skunk, and maybe a few other safe, healthy "exotic" pets as house pets. Nothing stupid like a chimpanzee[1][2][3] or capuchin[4] like I used to want but now know is a horrible idea.
Hebrew - two quarters at university. But I've forgotten most of it :-/ I can read though, especially with the help of vowels (so probably also A1 level)
I used to think that EVERYTHING possible had already been created on Wikipedia, and dream that some day I might find something to create a page about that nobody had before. Well, that day eventually came, and now I have created five new pages. Albeit, none are super glamorous/prestigious, but, considering how practically everything already had a page, I'm surprised that these didn't already have their own.
My approach is basically that whenever I seek internet information about a topic or place and notice that a Wikipedia page is lacking for it, I consider whether it meets notability guidelines and then go ahead.
Pancake Sentences, 24 November 2014 - a linguistic pattern in Scandinavian languages
Yentl Syndrome, 25 November 2014 - the phenomenon that, because women's heart attack symptoms are different from men's, many women suffering from heart attacks end up not noticing or dismissing the symptoms and therefore dying unnecessarily.
