My name is Eric P. Kessler and I am currently a senior here at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am majoring in Information Science, with a strong emphasis in Communication Studies. This web site was created for my INLS 261 class.

I was born a stone's throw away from the Pacific Ocean at Fort Ord, California, as the third son of a military officer, being raised in the full military way, moving a quarter of a dozen times by my eighth birthday. As military tours drew to a close for us, we landed on the Atlantic coast in Jacksonville, North Carolina, about an hour north of Wilmington. My father, James, is a retired USMC major, spending most of his retired life leading military contracts at New River Air Station, and my mother, Pamela, is a college English Instructor. My two older brothers are Stefan, a UNC Alumnus, who has returned to the west coast where he is a computer specialist for the engineering department at The University of California, San Diego, and Josh, the middle sibling, is a practicing medical physicist in Delaware after recent graduation from the medical physics master's program at East Carolina University and the college system of North Carolina.

Currently, I am almost half way through my senior year. This semester, I am learning not only web design and usability skills, but I am also learning design and usability skills for database systems. After graduation in May of 2007, I am undecided as to whether to continue my education by pursuing a degree in electrical engineering either from UNC-Charlotte or North Carolina State University. I’m not a fan of working with the general public, which is one of the few limitations that I foresee impacting my career choice. Outside of working in information science and engineering, I do have interests in live television production, for large venues such as sporting events, where the Everest lies in the live production of the Olympic Games. I am not too sure as to what direction I want to take in the information science or engineering fields, but I definitely know that I will enjoy whatever I choose to pursue.

Being extremely pessimistic, I am often surprised and impressed by things in life, yet not always able to enjoy what life has to offer. I regularly run, weight lift and play golf, but I find joy in the idea of sporting. I am also a skilled problem solver.

I enjoy traveling and have spent time in Europe with a group from high school and have been to thirty-six of the fifty states primarily with my family. A life goal of mine is to travel to all seven continents of the known world. If you have any questions, you can e-mail me.

Ten influential works

1. The Bible
2. If you give a mouse a cookie
3. White Walls and Silence (not a book or anything)
4. Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
5. The life of Eric P. Kessler
6. The Count of Monte Cristo
7. Brave New World
8. 1984
9. Guns Germs and Steel
10. Saddam Hussein’s romance novels

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