All about me

Hey, I know this is super late and I was meant to do it so long ago but hey, better late than never... right?
Haha...

Anyways, all about me!

So, I am Bradley Aaron Mundy, my initials spell out BAM, so my dad nicknamed me Bam Bam, like the character from The Flintstones. I am 19 years old, with two brothers who are 25 and 24, named Garry and Matthew respectively. I used to live in a house with these two and my two parents, now my brothers are off to their own apartments with jobs and my parents live together alone and I'm here at Kalamazoo now.

I originally grew up in Hazel Park, a small 1 mile by 1 mile town that tried to be as ghetto as Detroit but didn't quite make the cut.

I lived there for a good chunk of my life, until I was in the 5th grade, after that my parents wanted to get out of there (for good reason that place SUCKED) and now we live in a nice little town called St. Clair Shores. It's really not that little, it's got 3 high schools, 4 technically if you count the adult education school.

In school I didn't do much, I was known as that really nice kid that everybody could talk to, but he didn't talk back much. I also was apparently really smart, so everybody always asked me questions. I don't know where they got that idea.

Only thing productive I did in high school was that I was in a Mechanical Engineering class, it was fun we built things, I made like 3 air pressure based t-shirt launchers. They were pretty cool.

However, my highest accolade during that class would be most certainly making an RC car that could drive itself, dodge walls, drive to a certain location, and take videos and pictures. It was pretty neat.

For music choices I usually tend to listen to anything hard rock, rock, metal, country, or j-pop related, with the occasional electronic or dubstep here and there.

I wouldn't say I'm good at many things, but I have a few skills that I like to share;

I can play guitar, I speak very little Japanese こんにちわ！私はブラドリイです。よろしくおねがいします！Which translates to: Hello! I am Bradley, nice to meet you!
I can also play chess pretty well, NERD! I can also cook, yaay?

A little bit about what I do: I usually play video games, watch anime (ew), study, or just hang out with friends. I'm not a real social kind of person, however if you ever have a problem I will listen and let you vent on anything and will try to give you advice, but it's usually really bad.

Anyways, this isn't all what I'm about, mostly just key points, knowing the real me would take a long time, or about an hour of spending time with me.

I'm not a very interesting person.

Personal Narrative

So, for class we are writing two stories, one that is fictional and one that is nonfictional. I am personally able to write fiction pretty well, it's what I would call my strong suit. However whenever anything is nonfiction and has to pertain to my life I cannot do to save my life. In my opinion I always thought my life to be insignificant and boring so I couldn't really write about something being true. I usually lied about what I wrote about in school because I could never come up with anything. So personally I am DREADING this upcoming assignment and I really just want to get it out of the way so I don't have to even think about it anymore.

My current situation

So since I decided to stop being an engineer last year I have been attempting to browse around new majors to set my eye for. For now at Western I have picked business or finances, however due to recent searches my eyes have sent me some place else.
Simulation, Animation, and Gaming. This major would force me to transfer to Eastern Michigan University, sadly. This made me really sad because I love being at Western, Western has quickly turned into my home away from home and to learn that it doesn't offer what I want brought me to tears knowing that I'd be leaving all my friends and this beautiful campus with wonderful people. At the end of the day I have no other choice because Western is also becoming too much money for me to stay and EMU is way cheaper.

The Lesson

So the day of class on 9/15 we started talking about two stories called: The Lesson and Me Talk Pretty One Day. I really enjoyed The Lesson, I thought it was a really fun read. Usually reading autobiographies, memoirs, or even a fictional story about every day life, bores me and I dislike having to read it. However, I thought that The Lesson really captured the essence of that a lot of ghetto or poor neighborhoods have children that are really uneducated children who really give up on ever getting better and becoming and educated individual. It also shows that some people really care and want to change this, people like Ms. Moore. Throughout the story that kids never really wanted to learn anything, they hardly wanted to go on the trip that Ms. Moore was taking them on, and even at the end of the day it really didn't seem like they cared what Ms. Moore had to say. Overall the story was well written and well established, the characters actually seemed to be real and plausible to be real people.

Leidenfrost Effect

In my free time I tend to research a topic that first comes to my mind, lately I have been recently searching up cryogenics and recently came to this whole new scientific phenomenon that is called the Leidenfrost Effect (hence, the title). The Leidenfrost Effect is a truly magnificent thing, if something of an extremely high temperature touches something that is significantly colder than it it will more or less, bounce or bead off. For example: there is a hot plate that gets to be so hot that when water is poured on top of it the water beads up, and rolls right off. The way this works is that a part of the the water evaporates so quickly that a wall of vapor is making a distance between the water and the hot plate. Here is a picture example explaining how it works.

image received from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect
created by wiki user: Vystrix Nexoth

This can also work for multiple other kinds of liquids and solids, such as: pouring liquid nitrogen in short bursts onto a human hand (do not try this at home), also submerging your hand into a vat of liquid nitrogen can produce the same effect. When performed your hand will return completely dry, yet extremely cold, so it is ill advised to practice this because it takes correct timing to perform these tests and can be extremely dangerous.