User:49giantsharks
I am a Cal football fan who goes by the name of Matthew Scott LaBar, or 49giantsharks on the internet. You will see that I like to talk about myself.
This page is a bit of a relic, which I believe I wrote in 2006. My how things are different.
My Name
My name is nothing special; my parents just happened to like Matthew, while LaBar is Anglicized La Barré, apparently French for "the bar." I 51% like Matthew better than Matt, although I address myself as both. I respond to my last name better because from seventh grade through the end of high school everyone called me LaBar. My regnal name would either be Mattheus I in honor of the Fourth (or Fifth) Commandment or Victor IV, primarily in honor Sancti Papæ Victoris I (note the pronunciation is as Wictor).
Sports
You may have noticed that I first considered myself a Cal football game. As far as you're concerned, my birthday is October 10, 1987, when I first attended a game, a 23-23 tie against Arizona at the age of 3 months. Nothing will ever come between me and Cal football.
I like most other sports too. Cal basketball and rugby (the most dominant team against equal competition in the history of sports) come second and third, as well as the
School
I went to the public
In 11th grade I developed an interest in math, and so came to college as a math major. My senior year I developed an interest in English philology, and so I decided to double major.
My future plans are to get a Ph.D. in math, but if I get into Cal's English program but not their math program, I'll be getting a Ph.D. in English (but considering their English program is #1 in the country, that's a little tough). Afterwards, I hope to become a professor at Cal, and as of now my primary interests are
Interests
Aside from being 77.3% Catholic and 22.7% Protestant, my first and final love is
Wikipedia
You would think that after these ramblings about myself that I have contributed a lot, but I've hardly done anything. I've edited some football and King Arthur articles, and a few scattered others. I might rewrite the Idylls of the King article, though. When I learn to speak Latin, however, I will probably do tons on the Latin Vicipædia and maybe forget the English one forever.