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My real name is Alexander Zhikun He, though I go by "Xander". When using my formal name, I include my middle name because my last name makes me very difficult to Google. (Try it yourself and you'll mostly find things like "When news of the revolts reached [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]], he responded quickly.")

I am an upper-level mathematics and reading instructor at the [[Kumon]] Math and Reading Center in Milford. I also hold a [[General Securities Representative]] license, a [[Series 66 license]], as well as insurance licenses, though am currently unaffiliated with a firm.

I write poetry, having graduated from [[Fairfield University]] with a B.A. in English. My artistic role model model is [[William Shakespeare]]. Most of my free time, when not on Wikipedia, is devoted towards writing my own full length five-act [[verse drama]] ''Alex, Eliza, and the State'', which has already won more than one minor literary competitions despite being an incomplete draft. I hope to publish it by the end of the year. A short excerpt as well as a small selection of my other work can be found at http://xanderhe.host-ed.me.

I consider myself a [[rennaisance man]]. (I guess in more ways than one because of Shakespeare.) I like to joke that I would have graduated with 9 majors if such were a viable option as I love learning about anything and everything. Also, I consider myself very good at researching obscure topics, which when combined with my strong language acquisition abilities (I currently speak 5 human ones and counting) I am capable of working on topics that contain specialized language without prior knowledge, such as by deciphering psychology jargon to write the article [[Sleep state misperception]] and overcoming transliteration issues to write [[Qawmi]], a Bangladeshi Islamic educational system, without speaking Bengali. I also joke that I speak computer, having written a 14-line non-recursive [[Tower of Hanoi]] "[[sonnet]]" (which caused my Intro to Java Programming Professor's jaw to drop because he had never seen it done in less than 3 pages of code). I apply this skill to Wikipedia in designing templates like [[Template:Headless TOC]].

I've often said that I am well rounded in everything but music. Well, that has changed, as I just taught myself how to read [[sheet music]]. I proved this to myself by producing my own modern recreation of [[John Playford]]{{'s}} "Grimstock" that actually sounded right (which I admit I am rather proud of despite having spent only minutes actually producing the piece.)

{{listen |filename=Grimstock.ogg |title=Grimstock | pos=left |description=My own production of the music found in Playford's ''The English Dancing Master''}}

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