About me
Who are you?
I’m Marquis Wang. I go to school at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, where I am planning on majoring in Computer Science. I grew up in Champaign, IL, attending the University of Illinois Laboratory High School, which I graduated from in 2007.
I like to keep busy with various programming projects, which range from designing and maintaining my personal web sites to writing small programs or games. I will keep some of the more complete ones in my sandbox.
Otherwise, my interests vary from moment to moment. I enjoy playing chess, going hiking, reading books, and going on adventures.
As a student, my employment status changes from year to year, but in the past 3 years, I have been a sysadmin for the University of Illinois’s Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, a student webmaster for Harvey Mudd College, and I am currently working as a programmer for the Cognitive Computation Group, once again at the University of Illinois.
Why do you blog?
I’m starting this blog as a record of the things that I’m interested in – things that I am working on or thinking about. I can research things that I find interesting, then document my findings on this blog, so that I can refer back to it as necessary. At the same time, other people can benefit from the same information, and hopefully give some feedback so I’m not working in a black hole. Some people say that isolation is the best environment for creativity, but I find that it is far too easy to find yourself in a rut unless you have some outside input.
What exactly is a monochromatic oeuvre?
Monochromatic: (adj) Containing or using only one color; monotonous or lacking in variety
Oeuvre: (noun) The works of a painter, composer, or author regarded collectively; a work of art, music, or literature
Therefore, a monochromatic oeuvre is a collection of art of all one color or type. Hopefully, the contents of this blog will be at least slightly polychromatic. The title is a tribute to one of the best comic strips of the last two decades, Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to find the exact strip in question.