User:Jk266
Background
Hi, my name is Jonathan Kersky and I'm a freshman in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. I was born October 29, 1993 in Winter Park, Florida, and lived in the Orlando suburb of Windermere until I was 3. In 1997 we moved to Buffalo Grove, IL, a N/NW suburb of Chicago. I went to high school at Adlai E. Stevenson High School, where I graduated in 2012.
Interests
I love playing sports. Pretty much all of them. Running is my favorite. I ran cross country and track in high school. However, I've been playing baseball, basketball, and pick up football since I was little, and enjoy the occasional game of squash, tennis, bowling, golf (especially of the miniature variety), and just about any sport you can think of. I am on the club running team here at Duke and plan on playing intramural flag football and basketball.
I am an avid Philadelphia Eagles fan, and any given Sunday you'll see me reppin the birds. This is our year.
I have a wonderful girlfriend named Gina Li, she is a freshman at The University of Chicago (which she thinks is better than Duke, falsely if I say so myself) and she is an accomplished violinist, debater, and overall awesome person. She is very interested in psychology and philosophy, and not engineering.
Grand Challenges
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/msj.20005/asset/20005_ftp.pdf?v=1&t=h6slce3o&s=a71f3ca90d9db8949d21a7d3db1d2a4c3138e68a Foundations, Promises and Uncertainties of Personalized Medicine], Bottinger, E. P., Mt. Sinai Journal of Medicine, published April 2007 (print) (published online 21 May 2007), accessed 6 September 2012 (Engineer Better Medicines)
MATLAB Demos
At first I thought the topology applications in the gallery were the coolest demos because they are awesome looking and way over my head, but when I saw the Earth's Topography Demo I knew that it was my favorite by far. I'm a total cartography nerd and love examining maps and roads and city planning. Even though I'm a math and science guy, I have a soft spot for geography (hence the gigantic atlas in my room back home). This fits really well with what I'm doing in my Writing 101, "Writing Worlds: the power of maps" class right now too. Seeing the 2D and 3D variations is also cool because I didn't know that MATLAB could be used to represent three-dimensional objects until I read these demos.
