Whatsup Steemit Community!

Who Am I?

I'm Karlson Schlyer, a 21 year old who's currently a broke college student majoring in Biology. I think what most defines me as a person is that I'm a cancer survivor who refuses to not take advantage of the opportunities we are given every day. When I was 5 years old I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. I fought hard and came out relatively unscathed and vowed to never take life for granted. Every day I've tried to push myself out of my comfort zone to learn new things. This is what has led me to steemit.

My face.

What Led Me Here?

I randomly stumbled upon steemit a couple days ago when I was trying to teach myself more about cryptocurrencies. I've been investing in the stock market for about 6 months now ( check out Nvidia ;) ) and wanted to see what all the cryptocurrency hype was about! What I found was the amazing technologies behind these currencies, blockchain among others, and the potential they have to change how we interact with many things during our daily lives. I now understand the hype behind this industry! I think steemit is an ingenious idea that merges an amazing social platform with an amazing underlying technology and couldn't miss out on it, so here I am.

I personally made about 70% on the trade; but I didn't have much capital to work with - broke college student.

Hobbies & Interests

Like I hinted at earlier, I'm always finding new hobbies and interests, my newest being cryptocurrencies and really anything related to blockchain technology. This has led me to doing countless hours of research on the subject over the past week. I'm still new but I'm learning a lot. Other hobbies of mine include investing in the stock market, building custom gaming computers, teaching myself to program in Python, playing too much basketball, entrepreneurship, and many more. As you can see I'm kind of all over the place when it comes to my interests; I hope to expand on them more individually in the future, going over how I got into said topics and what I've learned so far.

A computer build a friend and I worked on.

Personal Life

As far as my personal life and family goes, it's been a crazy past couple of years. I have an older sister and brother, and one younger brother. My mother passed away recently after a long battle with cancer; yeah that one hurt. Luckily my siblings and I are about as close as siblings can get so we've helped each through it and refuse to let it keep us from achieving our goals. I'm currently a senior in college and graduate at the end of this year; real life here I come. I try not to throw too much about my personal life out into the public sphere, so I'll leave it at that. Oh wait, I have a dog and her name is Luna; she's insane but hard not to love.

Luna!

What's Next?

That's the good part, I don't know! I'm excited to see this platform grow and be along for the ride. Like I said I plan on writing future posts about my hobbies more in-depth. I will probably think of other stuff to talk about along the way as well. If you have any questions for me leave them down in the comments below and I'll do my best to answer them ASAP. If I feel like the answer will be a bit more involved I'll probably just end up writing a whole post about it and I'll make sure to credit you with the question. If you made it this far, thanks for reading and I look forward to interacting with you.

Stay curious,
Karlson Schlyer