Alex Kalams

Software Developer

Hi, I am Alexander Kalams, but I go by Alex. I am a computer science major at the University of Michigan College of Engineering planning to minor in music. Here is a little bit about me.

I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and have lived there almost my entire life. I went to Montgomery Bell Academy for high school. Here, I competed on the debate team, where I went to University of Michigan for a debate camp. Seeing the campus made me fall in love with this school, leading me to later apply and enroll.

When I was young, I dreamed about becoming a videogame designer one day and went to a summer camp that introduced me to some basic coding concepts for programming a video game. Here, I discovered that I have a passion for coding. I took a computer science class during high school and saw software development as a promising career for me, leading me to pursue computer science in college.

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I am also passionate about music. At first, I taught myself how to play guitar as a hobby during my junior year of high school. However, exploring the music classes offered at Michigan has made me want to take my interest in music more seriously. After taking a few music classes, I decided to pursue a minor in music as well.

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