My hobbies and interests:

Hockey

I am not really sure how I got into this hobby. It might have something to do that most of the people I work with in the Computer Systems Lab play hockey themselves. I started going to my first game a while ago and tasted blood. Hockey rocks! There is no doubt about it. I always was a very good skater but now being in this hockey fever I couldn't resist of buying myself a brand new pair of Bauer 5000 Supreme Composite hockey skates. Have a look at them. There is nothing better than my Bauer 5000s. I personally like college hockey a bit better than pro hockey but when it comes to pick a team that I am in favor of it would be the Pittsburgh Penguins. I guess there is no doubt of what college hockey team I support. GO BADGERS! I try to go to as many Badger hockey games as I possibly can.

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Badger Sports

This isn't hard to guess, right? Badger sports all the way! Our school has an incredible athletic department. I don't even want to mention all teams that we have since it just never ends. I personally took part in UW Athletics when I joined and made the freshman rowing crew team. I was already a junior and after spending a semester on the team I just could not afford to spend four hours on the crew team every day with a triple major. I will never forget though what it feels like to sit in a shell with 8 other guys and fly over the water at an incredible speed in the dawn of morning. Nobody who has never been in a shell himself can even imagine what it feels like. With Chris Clark I think we had an incredible coach and if one could have bought time I would have spent all my money on time to be able to stay in the rowing crew. I sometimes get up around 5:30am and walk to the lake just to watch the guys practice (the gals as well, of course).
I would probably spend days if I would write down everything I want to say about Badger sports. Instead, I will keep this short. There is a kick butt web page on the net that is also my personal favorite. The URL is http://www.wisc.edu/ath and one can find everything that one needs to know about the Badgers there. In fact, I am part of the developement team for those pages. I have an awesome time hanging out with the guys from the web team in Camp Randall. We are a great team and I think the quality of our pages also represents this fact.

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Traveling

Being born in Germany has a big advantage. I was able to see a lot of different countries. Here is a list of where I have been so far. I am definitely planning on gettting this list longer and longer: Besides traveling I also like to learn and speak foreign languages. I am fluent in German and English and know enough French to hold a decent conversation. Here in Madison, Wisconsin, I used to live in the French House for two years. In this house one can only speak French when communicating with other residents.

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Being Greek

In my second semester here at the University of Wisconsin I started to hear about fraternities. Being new in this country and new to this environment I didn't really have a clue as of what fraternities were. Once I found out I decided to rush. I started rushing with a good friend of mine. We intended to rush several houses but stopped right at the first one. Delta Upsilon. I had a great time in the house. After rushing and getting my bid I was a pledge for about half a semester when I found out that I scheduled a little bit too much during that semester. I had to drop some of my recreational activities and leaving Delta Upsilon was probably the biggest mistake I ever made on this campus. After staying out of the Greek system for quite a while I decided to do it again. I was seriously thinking of rushing Delta Upsilon again but when I found out that half of my pledge class already graduated and I hardly knew anybody in the house I started looking for other houses. At around the same time I got a call from a friend of mine who used to live in the French House with me. I mentioned to him way back that I was interested in going Greek again and he invited me over to his house. When I entered the house of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity I knew I was in the right place. I got along with everybody right away and got my bid and now I am again Greek - A DTD as you can call me.
Besides being active in my social fraternity I am also a memeber of Alpha Kappa Psi, a professional business fraternity. In fact, I was president for the fall semester of 1996 of this fraternity. It differs from a social fraternity in that we don't have a house and that we are a co-ed group. Since we are new on campus I hope that we will develop into a big group of creative and active people. Things seemed to go very slow at the beginning but they are speeding up now.

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My girlfriend

I dissed her just recently and I think I will put a form here so new girls can apply...

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