The infamous Michael Ganschow-Green

Michael Ganschow-Green
Michael Ganschow-Green took a circuitous route to academia, to say the least. While his early years are shrouded in mystery, legend has it he worked the black seams in Montana mining, where he earned the moniker "Grizzly Ganschow-Green" for his formidable stature and for a dazzling, borderline insane party trick of provoking the furry denizens of Yellowstone National Park, stealing salmon from them during the spawning season. After a few close encounters of the Ursus arctos horribilis kind, Ganschow-Green sought slightly safer amusements serving as roadie for the Neue Deutsche Harte band Rammstein, where, during the late 1990s, he was set afire in a massive stage explosion and barely escaped with his life. When he emerged from a year-long coma, he renounced Neue Deutsche Harte music in favor of Japanese emo, and "got his code on" by securing an internship with GeoCities a few months before it was purchased by Yahoo!. In the early 2000s, the illustrious TMCC professor Daniel Bouweraerts read about Mr. Ganschow-Green's escapades on a Rammstein fanzine and actively recruited him to jumpstart TMCC's nascent web design program, because, hey, the guy had been through everything and what could possibly go wrong?

Einstein said that people are happiest when they're learning. What did Einstein know? He did all his amazing work in his twenties and spent the rest of his life living up to his legend. It had to be exhausting.

Michael Ganschow-Green
Reno, Nevada