Greetings from Canada! Excited to join Steem!

Hey everyone! My name is Will Wei and I'm a student by day, musician by night. I play a couple of instruments, but piano is the one I turn to when the stresses of college swallow me up. One of the most difficult tasks in the world is going outside of one’s comfort zone. For me, it’s also one of the most rewarding experiences. I love trying and learning new things.

Fig 1. Cycling on campus, Canada. Picture taken right before I fell off. ‘Cause I suck at unicycling on grass.

When I was little, I moved around a lot, so I found it very hard to make new friends. I would live a year or two in one place, then move to a different school. Wash, rinse, repeat. Because of my parents’ work, I went to a different school every year between grades 7 and 11. Three of the schools were in Ontario, Canada, two were in North Carolina, USA. I had quite the time trying to settle in, to say the least. Regardless of where I was, I was confident in two things: my music and my laptop. In the US, I got a digital piano keyboard that I still have now. It’s travelled with me over 2800 miles across the US and Canada. I also used to game quite a bit on my laptop.

I was first exposed to Bitcoin in late 2016, when a pharmacy near my college got a new Bitcoin atm that allowed you to buy Bitcoin using cash (with hella fees). I thought it was interesting and bought about $30 worth of BTC. Didn’t think much about it for a year. So when I checked it and saw that it was then worth about $200, I thought that was cool (if only I’d invested more!). I began to do more research into blockchain and cryptocurrencies and before I knew it, I was convinced that decentralized online ledgers will be the future of currency and transactions. The world of cryptocurrencies and altcoins is so new and exciting and I wanted to know so much more about it. One thing led to another and here I am making my first post on Steem!

Anyways, I’m excited to meet all of you and strive toward a future where complete financial and internet freedom is not just a wild optimistic figment of our imagination. Please leave a comment below to let me know what you are all interested in. I’d love to have a discussion! Thanks for reading this far into my post! Here’s some more pictures for you to enjoy.

Fig 2. A railroad in BC. Taken using phone.

Fig 3. A mandelbrot fractal I programmed (yes I’m a geek!). Each colour of each pixel represents the number of repeats needed to get out of the yellow circle.

Fig 4. The great American eclipse, 2017 in Madras, Oregon. Me and a couple buddies drove to Oregon to experience our first total solar eclipse! The glow is from the corona of the sun and Mercury is the dot in the lower left center.

I hope you all have a great day! Please resteem @willswei because if there’s a Will, there’s a Wei! 😁