- Department: Mathematics & Statistics
- University: Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo
- Location: Los Osos, California
God is still working on me ... I grew up in a Christian home and I have never doubted my faith. Even so, I have had some real challenges along the way. It is easy for me to view myself as inferior to others no matter what the Bible says. This happened, I believe, because a lot of academic things came very easy to me ... until they didn't. It seemed as if I was thrown into a world where everyone else what better and smarter and perfect and I wasn't. The good thing for me is that God fully loves me no matter what. No matter what I've done or will do. Ultimately I may fully get to experience God's grace, but until then, I do see on a daily basis that when am willing to do what God asks me to do, he is able to bless others and through that, I experience joy.
Favorite Quote
Tolerance is another word for indifference. - W. Somerset Maugham
Fantasy dinner guests
St. Francis, Theodore Roosevelt, Bill Wilson, LBJ, and Anne Lamott. But I guess Tom Hanks could sub in for one of the others if they aren't free.
Best advice I ever received
Understand that I am powerless over the past, the truth and other people
My undergrad alma mater
Ucla
My worst subject in school
Any Foreign Language
In college I drove
1980 Honda Civic
If I weren't a professor, I would
Live in a van where I could work remotely from anywhere
Favorite books
A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
Favorite movies
Apocalypse Now and Singing in the Rain
Favorite city
Berkeley
Favorite coffee
Whatever we brew at home ... I don't have to go out
Nobody knows I
Want a tattoo of Leviticus 19:28 in Hebrew
My latest accomplishment
Elected to the academic senate of the largest University System in the World