Hobbies
Tennis, watching “Friends”, eating as much as possible(but no spicy)

Clubs
Math team, National Honor Society, Physics-Biology club, Tennis Team, Chemistry Club

Experience
PhysicsBowl regional 2nd place finisher, University of Maryland Math Competition honorable mention, AIME qualifier, 2005 Biology Olympiad Semifinalist(finalist news still pending), Regional Science Bowl winners

Biography
This David Chen figure; who could he be? Awkward, quiet (though exciteable), and full of enthusiasm, it is somewhat surprising that he did anything worth noting. But here he is. Born in China, David came to the U.S. early in life, lost in a sea of foreign faces, with the grand dreams of an entire family resting on his still unwieldy shoulders. But he was not so precocious as the hopes went; his academic career began in a series of mishaps due to an inability to understand the intricacies of a confusing language. However, things eventually mulled over, as they do, and he finally settled in at school. He is a science-loving person who does many things there, none of which are particularly noteworthy and good for this biography, as he realizes the rest of the biographies will have plenty of accomplishments to put his to shame. He has hobbies, certainly, and occasionally enjoys doing such things as reading the "Naruto" manga, and “educational” books. Some other hobbies include playing tennis, eating sushi, cultivating a very bad sense of humor, and pondering the true significance of the phenomenon known as lightning. There was a very interesting essay written about this matter, but, to retain some relevancy to the subject at hand, it has not been included. On the academic front, he does all of the usual things: read, study, sleep, and eat, though it should be noticed that more emphasis is placed on the latter two. He first discovered the joy of science at the early age (or late, depending on who is reading this) of 11, when a recent Nobel Prize winner in Physics visited the class, bringing with him a superconducter, a magnet, a bottle of liquid nitrogen, and, with laser pointer in hand, a plan to change the course of a life. Needless to say, the experience vastly changed (and here I shall revert to the first person, as the third person is becoming difficult to manage) my life, and I found myself drawn more and more toward the wonderful and vast field of science. But the story does not end there; not at all, for, regardless of interest, I had a less-than-stellar academic record. So it was not actually until the tenth grade when I had my first real experience with physics. It turned out to be a perfect match- after a year of excellent teaching from the wonderful staff at Wootton, I finally realized that Physics was the way I wanted to go. Science really has become my life. And so it has been, this past year, one filled with more drama and expectations than I would ever have imagined. But here I sit, typing up a biography for the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to myself. And it feels so good, because now I know what this journey will culminate into. Eleven years after stepping out into a completely alien world, I finally know the meaning of destiny.