What Drives Me/ Is My Passion?

What Drives Me/ Is My Passion? This is a difficult question to answer. There are a lot of things I am passionate about for instance information technology, reading, history, and opera. Many times my interests in these topics is related to gaining information about various topics. My interests tend to be overlapping and can all be connected to each other even when they don't immediately seem similar.

I guess the overarching theme for what I am passionate about is that I love learning and often time my interests in topics will lead me to become interested in new topics. For instance, my interest in history was started by seeing an opera and wanting to know how much of the plot of the opera was based on historical fact and how much was fiction. More recently as I mentioned in a previous post I was a double major in Computer Science and History as an undergraduate this led me to be interested in combing these two interests and being involved in something more interdisciplinary than just Computer Science or History.

In addition, my love of learning has led me to frequently look for information about various topics. Often times I will find information related to the topic I am interested in, but not exactly what I was looking for. This has led me to be interested in trying help people search for information and get the results that are best for them personally as opposed to the results that are on average best for everyone. This encourages my interest in researching web search and personalization, because personalization is something that has the potential to individualize results so that individual searchers are more likely to get the results that are best for them.