Mike Ando

Hi, my name is Mike Ando, and I am a third year physics major at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It was only recently that I took a class entitled "Stellar Structure and Evolution" which really got me interested in astrophysics, and I haven't come across a boring topic in astro yet. That makes me excited to go to SURAP to learn even more and get some real world experience doing research and using the telescopes.
As for what I do when I'm not learning physics, I do the all-encompassing "hanging out with friends" thing which can include watching old Simpsons and Futurama episodes or new Strong Bad E-mails, I run on the beach, I read anything by Dave Barry or Douglas Adams, and I go twice a week to a local high school to help teach physics.

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