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My name is Stelios Mintsidis. Does the name sound strange? Well, it would to me too, if I was not from Greece.
Of course, you just might be from Greece. After all, there are about 10 million of us, and the Internet is becoming more and more popular every day here too, so there's great chance that you're really from around here
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here!Following is a short history of my life so far. Not really interested in hearing about my life? Well, this page has more to offer you:
Well, now for my biography:
I am a 22 year old guy, born in a small town in Greece called Katerini. I lived there for the first 18 years of my life and then I moved to Athens (the capital of Greece), where I've been living for 4 years now. My birthday is September 11, 1976.
I'm a student of Physics at the university of Athens. Not a very good student though, cause the 4th year in our university is supposed to be the last but it seems to me I still have a long way ahead of me… (You see… I've kind of failed a few classes)
Anyway! Let's not talk about lessons now…
But don't think I'm just living off my parent's money (well, I am… but anyway, I make some money myself J ) as I have a job and a very important one too! I work as a computer programmer for a local software firm, called New Faces. As I often say myself, I'm the new face at New Faces.
In case you're interested in some great dental and other medical software, click on their link above to contact them. They really make great stuff! I know! I help making them!
Maybe you're now wondering what I'm doing working as a programmer since I study Physics.
Well… that's another story.. J
You see, I've been into computers from the age of 12… And up to the age of 17, I really was involved with little (if anything) else than computers. When I finally came to my senses, when I met the girl of my dreams, at age 17, I realised that I had taken several things wrong with my life… I saw that many good years were behind me and had gone completely wasted in front of a CGA monitor (my first computer was an Amstrad PC 1512) and later on, a monochrome VGA monitor on my Tulip AT c. 2.
So, I came to hate computers for a short period of time. I put my Tulip in the highest locker my room had and swore never to take it down. And when time came to fill in my university selection form, I didn't even consider applying for a computer-related school. I put in the Physics dept. in Athens as my first choice. Physics was a science I loved, almost everything is based on it. The Physics deparment offered a very attractive curriculum consisting of some great subjects like AstroPhysics, Quantum Mechanics, Nuclear Physics, Meteorology and so many things that we hear about and never get to learn anything about them. It was my chance to get to learn all that and besides, I would still be able to eventually be involved with what I really knew well, computers that is, since from the 3rd university year you get to specialize in an area of Physics, and Physics being such a wide - spectrum science, it includes several different areas of specialization. I of course would choose Electronics and Informatics, which I eventually did J
So, when I finally passed the university entrance exams (not with the first time, I'm afraid… The first time I got into a Technical Institute for Forest research, up in Drama, a small town like Katerini, also in the North of Greece) I found myself at the gates of the illustrious National Kapodistrian University Of Athens (UOA).
I must say that the university itself was a disappointment.: The buildings are ruins, the university equipment is obsolete, the lessons are based on simply memorizing a number of chapters, the labs were underequipped and understaffed… A total disappointment…
But I don't regret getting in here… First because it's just not like me to regret things I've done… What's bygone is bygone. I wouldn't be what I am if what happened had happened differently. And since I like what I am, why regret anything from the past? Aren't I right? Second, many good things came from my acceptance into UOA.
I made my life's best friends here, and living alone here in my flat in Athens, I had a hell of a time this 4 years.. They are surely the best years of my life. I'm very sad that it's going to end sometime soon (I mean that someday I'll finish the university) ... I sit to think some times and I really can't believe how fast these years passed….
Anyway!
No sad thoughts today!
Well, that's about it for me… I'm a nice guy really…
And I've rediscovered my love for computers this last years… I just have much better things to do now, and my computer is now merely my job's tool and also a very enjoyable hobby… Ok, I still occasionally spend 7 and 8 hours in front of the monitor, but what the heck? The first love never dies, right?