Born and raised in Abak, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, my family moved to the Columbia,
SC USA in 2007. As alien as the Western culture was for me, I found a common ground
in AC Flora High School, playing soccer. I started off on the Junior Varsity team
then moved up to Varsity. Soccer, otherwise known to me as football, was my favorite
opportunity AC Flora gave me. Due to the cultural change, I was involved in very little
organizations or functions in high school. Other than the soccer team, I was part
of the French club, and the Math Team in my senior year. Outside school, I was part
of the church youth. Frequently, the youth would go evangelizing from door to door.
We organized functions like buying gifts for parents that lived in the apartment complex
close to the church on either father's or mother's day. Also, my sophomore year, I
tried out for the South Carolina U-16 Men's Soccer team, and made the team. I played
with them for two years before tearing my right ACL right before graduation. Now,
I currently attend Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC and I am a double major in Chemistry
with a concentration in Multidisciplinary Chemistry and a Computer Science. My goal
in life is to come up with solutions to complex problems we face today in science
using the ever evolving technology. Born on June 21, 1994, my name is Esseabasi Etim
aka Captain Kirk.
