About
Thank you for your interest in my online self-portrait. With this site I am trying to give people an overview of my professional and academic work, but also trying to have a little bit of fun. I try to present the complete picture. I’d guess that sometimes people who come here looking for the former get too much of the latter, and vice-versa, but I think it’s worth the cost. I’ve also resisted the temptation to take down some of my older work (notably, writings from high school) both because they’re curiosities to me and because they motivate me to be a better writer.
Aside from professional vs. personal, this site can also be divided into current vs. archive. For the most part, the site is comprised of the various journal entires that you see on the home page. This information is more timely than the archival pages that are accessible from the links at the top of every page.
Who am I? Currently, a third-year student at the Columbia Law School. In August 2006 I graduated from Penn State with both BS and MS degrees in Information Sciences and Technology. Law school is of course tremendously different from what I did before, but there is also a lot of helpful overlap. In particular, the electronic search skills I learned in IST have already proven useful in legal research, and I think I also got a lot of practice in taking complex problems and breaking them down analytically. When I’m not doing schoolwork, I like playing racquetball, watching the renaissance that is modern network television, going to movies, and reading. I primarily read technology books and magazines, but I also enjoy American history and the occassional work of fiction.
I’m originally from the Philadelphia area, where my parents and younger brother and sister still live.
I think you can tell a lot about a person by what he buys, what he reads, and how he portrays himself to his friends. Ergo, the following:
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Wii Number: 5290-7582-9577-6802
A note about this site. marcfriedenberg.com has been through many incarnations over the years, from primitive hand-coded HTML, to the templative power of server-side includes, then finally to my own PHP-scripted monstrosity. The blogging revolution has conveniently resulted in several useful tools which save me a lot of busywork. One of them, WordPress, now powers this site. Several people have asked me how they can get their own domain names, hosting space, etc. I’m happy to provide this information upon request.