User:Emma/Bio

My name is Matthew "Matt" James Rieckman (pronounced like REEK-MAN). I'm also known as mjr162006 (I sometimes capitalize the m). I took it from my e-mail address. I created my current e-mail account in 2006. The meaning of the letters and numbers are: "m" for Matt — my first name, "j" for James — my middle name, "r" for Rieckman — my last name, "16" my age when I created my e-mail account, and "2006" the year I created my e-mail account. Put it together and you have "mjr162006."

I live in the state of South Dakota of the United States. It's next to Minnesota and south of North Dakota ^_^. If you see me editing at around 8:00AM UTC (3:00AM here), then I woke up involuntarily - damn birds - and am unable to resume sleep. Graduated from high school in May of 2008, actually the day after I wrote this paragraph, and was accepted to a public university for a degree in mathematics. My classes were over May 13,but I have had a lot of free time during school for the last month. The graduation ceremony was on May 18.

My school was a K12 school. That means that it is a elementary, middle, and high school all in one building. Only the middle school has a science fair. I took first place two years in a row. In 9th grade, I won first place at the state level in land judging. I then went on to nationals and placed 33rd, out of about three or four thousand. I won first place in Aquaculture - fish related - in 11th grade. That was the result of a three-year project. In twelfth grade, I received a State FFA degree. That is the highest award a FFA member can receive at the state level. I went to National Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana in October of 2007. There were over 50,000 members there.

I am very good at mathematics. When I say I didn't learn anything in math class, it is the truth. In my senior year, and through most of high school, I did not learn anything in Calculus class that I had not already took upon myself to learn beforehand. As a consequence of this, I was the "second teacher" of the class. Our calc class was a distance learning class. That means that we go to a special room and a class from another school connects with us through microphones, cameras, and displays. Our teacher was the only one in our school to teach a distance learning class.

I came to Zelda Wiki.org in the middle of the month of April in 2008. I didn't edit much at first. I wasn't really sure how much of anything worked. But, thankfully, users like Adam and Ando were there to guide me. In a few week's time I rapidly became one of the most active members on Zelda Wiki.org.

One of my first goals was to make grammatical corrections. Starting out, I intentionally mis-spelled the word grammar as grammer. Ando claims that he noticed right away, and he most likely did. It took a few days before Adam came up and said something. Now the use of "grammer" is sort of a running joke of mine.

One day I decided that there need to be more boss favorite userboxes. So I started making them. Since some boss pictures didn't look good in some colors, I made each of the boss favorite userboxes a different color. A few though, I intention left out one character for the color hex code so that the color matched the background.

I absolutely despise lying. If I see a problem with how someone is acting,  I will not sugar-coat it! I will not lie to spare someone's feelings. That would only harm him/her more in the long run. I am well-known for being brutally honest. This is my nature. Nothing will ever change that. If anyone is ever offended by this, just remember that offense is never intended.