User:Rstockbower
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I'm a full-time pharmacy student, but my interests are far more varied than just medicine. I am a voracious reader. I read mostly science-related non-fiction and technology stuff. I was a CS major before I switched to Pharmacy, so I've got the best of both worlds, it seems. I spend quite a bit of time posting to my blog. (How I hate that word.)
Most of the time, though, you can find me contributing to polyscience.org, my science website. In the past, I have written for Ars Technica's Nobel Intent science news journal.
I signed up to contribute to Wikipedia because I saw something that was wrong, and I wanted to fix it. I don't change many things because most contributors seem to know more about most things than I do. I like the idea of a user-created encyclopedia of everything as a starting point for research on "real" things, and as a reference for many pop culture references that a traditional encyclopedia like Britannica could never hope to keep up with. (Nor would they necessarily want to include it.) The absolute democratic nature of wikipedia is what makes it special in terms of what appears there: anyone can create articles, there is no decision-by-committee that determines what is and is not worthy of making an appearance.
