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I am a biology major and my goal is to hold a professorship of molecular biology at a university where I could teach and do research. I am married to Adriel Ahern Scarborough (the greatest woman in the world!) My other goal is to live on a few acres with some trees, a creek, and a sunny patch where I can grow food for my family, and raise sheep, goats and chickens. I would build my own house, using haybail and stucco construction and other green materials. Very farmer-john, I know. So far I have been able to balance being proud of my country, and being ashamed of the direction it is headed. I don't know how long I will be able to keep up the shame without it smothering the pride in its sleep.

What I do and what I'm interested in is like a grain of sand and a beach. If I could be omnicient it would just about satisfy my curiosity. Trust me, you couldn't bore me with technical details. I go to graduate seminars in subjects as diverse as Biochemistry, Astrophysics, Theoretical Physics, Geology, Political Science, Sociology, any kind of Biology, etc. Depending on the subject, twenty to ninety percent of it is above my head, but the part that I do understand feeds my ravinous curiosity (and they're free!). My favorite type of lecture is when there is an opening available for a professorship, and the interview is a presentation of the post doc research that the applicants have been conducting. My actual field is Molecular and Cellular Biology (for now). I hope to get a PhD in Population Genetics and Evolution.