Cary Lee singer, software developer, activist

Cary Lee

Hi, I'm Cary

I'm a student at Northwestern University studying vocal performance and computer science. I'm a hacker, a baritone, an LGBT + church activist, a unicyclist and a lover of public transit.

I grew up in Orlando but left the sweltering heat for snowpocalyptic Chicagoland in 2007. Next fall, my boyfriend and I will move to Seattle where I will enter the real world working at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET) on the Windows Live team.

Re-reading the Encyclopedia

My aunt, Melinda Bush, is developmentally disabled. She is intelligent, but not fully independent. She has a variety of psychological disorders, one of which is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. One symptom of OCD is the tendency to follow routines—routines that become very difficult to break.

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Love Made Visible

I spent the summers of 2007 and 2008 serving on the leadership team at the Warren W. Willis United Methodist Camp in Fruitland Park, Florida. At its core, the job of a camp counselor is simple: to engage in relational ministry with fourth through twelfth graders. Or, perhaps even more simply: to love the campers.

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Unsung Gem of Google Spreadsheets

The value of Google Docs is often judged in comparison to Microsoft Office. I find that the places where Google Docs really excels are the features that are unique to a cloud-based solution. The obvious feature of this sort is the flagship feature of Google Docs: collaborative editing.

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