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Zakary O.

Zakary graduated in 2016 from U.C. San Diego with a Bachelors in Sciences in Geophysics. Zak is a “Navy Brat” who grew up traveling the world with his Mom while visiting his Dad. While born in the states, Zak (and family) quickly moved to Japan where he spent the first seven years of his life enjoying being the odd one out (red hair isn't very common over there) and also going to the Japanese based Kumon program, an afterschool tutoring group heavily focused in Math. After learning long division well before the first grade, Zak was destined for a career in the sciences because Math “just came easily” to him, “so why not?”. With a 4.47 GPA out of highschool and 8 AP classes under his belt, he would soon learn that College was a whole other level of trouble. After a few reality checks (both in the classroom and out), Zak had his feet under him again and successfully completed the entire honors sequence of physics , the entire scientific majors math series, and the entire general and organics chemistry series. Zak also had a heavy general education requirement in the humanities (aka reading books and writing essays) thanks to the Revelle College (the original college within UC San Diego which added the “most” GE requirements to a student’s major requirements). Zak now holds a title of Geologist-in-Training (a legal title given after passing a competency exam) and is eagerly anticipating an additional test this Fall where he recently obtained his Professional Geologist certification (another legal title..). Zak is also chasing a certification in Fluvial Geomorphology and natural stream channel design/restoration. He has always felt an ability to connect with people (probably because he just loves to learn about almost anything, and gosh can he talk…), and has always contemplated being a teacher.