Gregory Lewis Web-Log

I was accepted into Virginia Tech’s Computer Engineering degree program my Junior year of High School. However, I received a Division I Wrestling scholarship offer my Senior year of High School. I did not quite make it through my red-shirt freshman year of college wrestling. I returned to my hometown of Front Royal, Virginia and attended the local community college and worked for several years. I then re-applied to Virginia Tech as a transfer student. I graduated from Virginia Tech with degrees in Business Economics and Philosophy. After graduating from Virginia Tech my love for personal computers and IT continued. I worked in the e-commerce division of an internet telecommunications company as a programmer and applications developer, in various roles, including Systems Administration and Data Science. I later became a Microsoft Certified Windows Programmer, and do a lot of PC repair and maintenance. I am currently researching the various State requirements for teaching High School Com...

 Thanksgiving Holiday 2023 It has been about one year since I have made a new blog post to this website. I have been quite busy follow the events on both Wall Street and in Washington D.C. November, among many things, is National Blogger Month. I will attempt to make more time for writing and posting blogs to this website. The Thanksgiving Holiday in the month of November has more meaning to me today than when I was a kid. Within the past ten years I have discovered I am a descendant of the Baptist Pilgrim Separatists of the Mayflower and 1620 Plymouth Plantation. I, also, found out I have distant ancestry of the Seneca Native American Peoples. It is to my understanding my Great Great Grandmother was a Seneca Native American tribal leader, making my grandfather a legal member of the Seneca Native American Tribe. Therefore, the month of November, and specifically the Thanksgiving Holiday, has taken on renewed interest and value for me, personally. As I am examining and applying for ...