2017-2018 Avatar: Camuel Hart

My name is Camuel Hart and I am a senior at The Gatton Academy. These two pieces of information alone are sufficient in describing me to the extent of my wishes; however, as this is a personal bio, I feel an obligation to provide information of a much more personal and insightful variety.

Allow me to try again.

My name is Camuel Dean Hart and I am a senior at The Gatton Academy.

Perhaps I overcompensated.

I am originally from Rowan County, Kentucky, and was drawn to the Academy because of its distance from Rowan County, Kentucky. I mean not to say anything ill of my hometown, but rather state that it is ill advised to limit oneself to one kind of experience. My decision to come to Gatton was made to ensure a diversification of experiences, both academic and social. And thus far, diversification has been my experience. I entered the Academy with an acute interest in mathematics, but have since developed a rival interest in computer science. I mean not to say anything ill of my first love, but rather state that computers are not as acutely studied in my hometown.

As all my dear and valued friends gladly take every opportunity to point out, I currently conduct research in the mathematical field of knot theory with Dr. Claus Ernst of WKU. Only in an institution as academically diverse as Gatton could you find such a plethora of niche disciplines open for participation, and only in an institution as niche as Gatton could you find such a plethora of academically diverse participants in mocking knot theory. I do truly appreciate their good-humored jest my work; in fact, I find many of the jokes to be not only clever and tasteful, but also novel and innovative. I gladly take every opportunity to receive knot-related puns, as I probably have not already heard them in my nightmares.

Math, science, and knot theory are all phenomenal, but some of my greatest passions lie outside of the acronym boasted by the Academy. I have a great love for music, both in listening and performing, as I play the drum set. I also have a great love for film, but only in watching, as I do not play the movie set. I appreciate literature, and strive to learn to read one day. In the meantime, I can luckily occupy myself with the most phenomenal of all my great passions: authoring autobiographical blog posts.