Who Am I

My name is Connor Thompson. I’m currently a rising junior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering; when I graduate I intend to join the alternative energy industry. I grew up just down the road in Dexter, a village outside Ann Arbor. During my time there, I played for my high school’s water polo and swim teams, the latter of which won a state championship my senior year, and became the editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, The Squall.

I have an avid interest in music and sailing, which together occupied most of my summers as a child. My father plays the bagpipes and encouraged my sister and I to pick up instruments as well; I still practice on my old keyboard when I get the chance. I still sail when I can as well – my family would spend entire months at a time living on a sailboat in Charlevoix, Michigan. While I don’t get to visit Charlevoix as much as I used to, I still sail often. I was a sailing teacher at Camp Daggett, a summer camp in Petoskey, Michigan, for the previous five summers.

I can play the William Tell Overture on my neck by lightly tapping my throat with my fingers. That is easily the most unusual thing about me, something that defies an easy segue from a paragraph about sailing and playing the piano. I hope that the diligent reader who has made it through an otherwise uninteresting blog entry among dozens of other more engaging ones can now appreciate his or her hard work in slogging through to the more interesting bits.