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Hi, I’m Mingjie, I am a student at Thomas S. Wootton High School here in Rockville, Maryland. I was born in Shanghai, China, and I immigrated to the United States during the summer of 2015. I am a hacker. An artsy picture of me by Ryan C. at Cathay Future (awesome designer and photographer): [Link](/data/avatar_original.png)

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### >> "Isn’t hacking illegal?"

Dude, you might want to take a look at [Hack Club’s Website](https://hackclub.com).

### >> "What kind of person are you?"

I am an absolute <hl>working addict</hl>. Whatever work you have assigned to me, even if it is really boring, I will work my butt off just to get them done on time.

### >> "I get it. You code. But what else do you do?"
*   Trumpet, [Wootton Marching Band](https://www.facebook.com/whsmarchingband2017/)
    (Wootton Marching Band is Maryland State Champion in the year of 2017, and has also won 2nd place at Nationals.)
*   Foil Fencer, [Rockville Fencing Academy](http://urfencing.com/)
*   Debater, [Potomac Debate Academy](http://www.potomactutoring.com/public-speaking-and-debate)

### >> "What big projects have you been involved with?"
*   [**Hack Club Shipit**](https://github.com/mj66/shipit): Built with [@jsneak](https://github.com/jsneak), Shipit is a platform for high school hackers to share their projects with the Hack Club community world wide.

### >> "How the hell do you have so much time to work on all that crap?"

I don’t. Maybe going to sleep at midnight everyday counts?
