Introduction

Just to give some background as to who I am for those of you reading this. I am Stephen Hawker, a masters student at Brigham Young University. I am in my last year and am working on applying to Ph.D. programs for next year. I am an information systems student and love fiddling with computers. I have been married for three "glorious" years, (that is an inside joke, don't tell my wife). I currently work at the Missionary Training Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as a quality assurance team lead and for Dr. Nicolas Ball as a research assistant. Both of these jobs are fun and useful and pay pretty well for a college kid with limited work experience and skills. Well that is me in a paragraph.