Milad Afkhami
I was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the States
when I was seven years old and have been living
in Maryland ever since. I am currently a senior
at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County
and am double majoring in Information Systems and
History. After college, I plan on retiring. If that
plan is not attainable, I wish to either enter the
military as an officer or work for the federal government,
whether it is for the CIA, DIA, NASA or any other
alphabet soup agency as long as it is a fun job
and I am on the cutting edge of my field. My most
preferred path would be to enter the military and
then join NASA afterwards on a space mission.
My interests in astronomy began as a child coming
home from school and watching the Discovery and
History channels. The beauty of the images I saw
made me wonder as to what is out there and I wanted
to learn more.
I love skydiving, snowboarding, flying and anything
else that gives an adrenaline rush. I hope to have
my skydiving certification within a year and hopefully
will go for my piloting license after that. I have
a love and hate relationship for clouds. I only
love them during the day when I can fly or jump
through them and hate them at night when they cover
up the stars.
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