I am a 21-year-old college student at American University (Washington, D.C.) majoring in Visual Media and minoring in Graphic Design. I plan to graduate in May 1999.

I was never really interested interested in Web design until I started taking design classes here.  Since then, I have designed a new logo for the student-run radio station, WVAU, and am currently working on a Web site for them.

On the Visual Media front, I recently returned from AU's World Capitals Program's semester in Prague.  Studying at the FAMU film school was a great experience, and the city itself was breathtaking.  Over the course of the semester, I visited England, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Slovakia, Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia, as well as (of course) the Czech Republic.

Though, for all my travelling, I still love sunny (supposedly) Santa Monica.  Even after a semester in D.C., I hear the Pacific calling me home.  I know it sounds cheesy, but I really am a man of the West.  In case you're wondering, my nickname, Alika, is Hawaiian for "Alex."  I was born there, and then raised in Santa Monica, but the name stuck (due to my family).

Find my life-in-a-nutshell interesting?  E-mail me below.

Curious about my interests? Check out my links page.

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