Chrispy Bongo: A Timeline

My Childhood: 1974 - 1987

Born in Minneapolis. Attended grade school at Resurrection Catholic School for 8 years.

My Adolesence: 1987 - 1991

Moved to Prestigious West Bloomington (home of the Mall of America) in the summer of 1987. Attended Olson Junior High School and Bloomington Jefferson High School, where I was involved in such activities as newspaper and National Honor Society.

My Young Adulthood: 1991 - 1995

My parents divorced in April 1991, and my father moved elsewhere in Bloomington while my mother moved back to south Minneapolis. Graduated from high school in 1992, and started at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1992.

My Adulthood: 1995 - present

I took a full-time position at the University of Minnesota as a programmer in June 1995. I moved in with two high school friends in August 1995, and lived with them for a year until we were evicted due to our neighbor's insistence that their two-year-old daughter had to sleep on the couch next to our wall. In July of 1996 I moved into an apartment near the University by myself. In August 1996, my parents announced their remarriage. I met the woman who would become my wife in 1997, and married her in 1999. I graduated from college in June 2000 with a BA in computer science.

What's next? Housebuying? Grad school? Joining a cult and moving to Wyoming? Who can say what the future will hold? Anyone, but would they guess correctly?


Chris Bongaarts - bong0004@tc.umn.edu

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