A Brief Summary of Ryan Smith

One of my frequent human interactions in the last few week has been in the Stanford facebook group. It is composed of the admitted students and after regular decisions came out a week ago the group has been inundated with new people. A common trend is for people to introduce themselves, talking about things they like, and similar events. I eventually decided to take a stab at it and here is my introduction. 

I want you all to know that you are influencing me with peer pressure and that is wrong and you should feel terrible. Well, with that out of the way...

Hello everyone, I'm Ryan Smith and if you know a way to put me into a stasis until September please let me know! I am the youngest of 5, an act-a-holic, frequent video game connoisseur, and math enthusiast. That's in fact how I came to apply to Stanford. A few of my friends had attended the Stanford Mathematics Camp (SUMaC represent!) and this led me to apply in 2013 and I proceeded to have one of the best summers of my life. I met lots of amazing people, many of which are in this group, fell in love with the campus, the lifestyle, and the community. From that point on I couldn't see myself going anywhere else and I was and am very relieved that I found out that I was going in December.

On other topics, I've made a second home at my local community theater and have been a part of over 40 performances in the last 4 years and if there is anything that I am going to miss it will be my lovely Fountain Hills Theater.

The other major influences in my life have been Warcraft III, my first major online game, WoW and LoL as a place where I found many of my closest friends, and my obnoxious older sister who has shaped my mind to her own purposes.

I"m going to major in Mathematics and Computer Science and love learning about all of the amazing technologies we use. Anyway, that's me, hi. How are you?