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JON

Hometown: Waukegan, IL 

Major / Minor: Graduate Student in Statistics (Undergrad double major in Mathematics and Statistics)

Extracurricular Activities @ U of I: Sports; mostly golf, racquetball and basketball

Favorite Class @ U of I:  Atmospheric Sciences 100:  When I took it as an undergrad. It was a very enjoyable and useful class. I liked it so much that I almost minored in Atmos.

Hobbies: Playing sports, reading, listening to music

Favorite Quote: "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live" -Albus Dumbledore.

Hero/Role Model:  Gil Grissom, he's a good guy.

Favorite Restaurant in C-U: Texas Roadhouse

Favorite Music: Bob Dylan

Favorite Movies: This is always a tough question to ask. I've seen too many to pick just one (or ten), so pretty much anything that keeps me enthralled to the end is my favorite.

Favorite TV Shows: Again a tough question. I like a lot of them. But if I was really forced to choose one I would have to say Boy Meets World. It’s been my favorite since it was on TGIF.

Best college advice:  Enjoy it while it lasts, it goes by quicker than you’d think it would.

Project Work @ RC: This semester I am working on creating a model to predict a customer’s lifetime value.

What brought you to the RC? It offered great experience to apply what I have learned in my educational studies.

Best thing about working at the RC: The environment. The people that work here are great and easy to work with.

Most surprising thing you’ve learned about State Farm: To be perfectly honest, before I came to work at State Farm I did not know that State Farm has their own bank. Now that I work here, I know that they do.