Welcome!

Hi, I'm Nicholas Kading, and this is my website!

As of right now, I am studying at PoliTO, a university in Italy in the city of Turin. Before then, I went to UCSD in San Diego, California. Studying in Turin has been tough, but the experience of being in a new city has been exhilirating. I have made some new friends, made some new experiences, and I am learning so much.

This is my personal site after all, so here's a little bit about me.

Being in nature is one of my favorite things to do. While I was in San Diego, I tried to go at least three or four times a month on a hike. Besides enjoying nature, it was awesome to talk with friends, doing a shared activity that we loved. Greg often discovering a new animal species every hike.

Besides hiking, I also found biking enjoyable. Both urban biking and mountain biking. I always had worse cardio than Jonas, but we climbed those hills together. I got so many of my white shirts covered in mud, because I was careless and would lay in the dirt to recover my stamina. Some of the stains never wen't away! :P

I even swam in the Pacific ocean without a wetsuit, and somewhat frequently. It was always so cold! But once your body acclimated, it was the best feeling. I did some swimming, surfing and boogie boarding. Also some sailing for one particular summer!

Electrical Engineering has been my life for four years as of right now. It is not something that comes naturally, but it is something that I truly believe I will thoroughly enjoy as I gain a breadth of skills and experience.

Since even before college, I learned how to do programming. I was self taught, which I guess is good, because I have some intuition about it, but also bad because I do not follow syntactical rules and standards. I CANNOT BE TAMED!

Since doing programming for many years, I found that there was still something that I wanted. I could always learn infrastructure management, or data science, or some other related topic, but...it was hard to describe. Now I have a clear head, and a goal in mind: to learn Electrical Engineering.

While programming was entirely software, electrical engineering (depending on the field), could be almost entirely hardware. By learning electrical engineering, I hope to be able to design whatever I can dream of. (Granted, I would never dream of making a space probe or something or other all on my own. Impossible, no. But quite close.) If there's some product I dream up, I want to be able to use what I know to get to a working prototype.

With what money I get from electrical engineering, I hope to do as much traveling as I can. There are some places I've seen so far that I find amazing. Sometimes, it's not even a city itself, but a particular place.

In the picture in the background, I traveled to Udine. The whole city was pretty nice and impressive, but that little paved stretch of road really caught my eye. Windows and doors of apartments. Tables outside for people to sit. Plants outside a business celebrating the holidays. The beautiful colors of the buildings, as well as the sunlight hitting it at an oblique angle.

I will give it to you, that was a whole lot of words I just said. But the point is that I felt like this place had so much life, despite having no people at all. I could imagine it on a saturday night full of people sat at the bar, some walking into shops, and others just walking by.

It is my great passion to see how people live.

Actually being in these places, you get a sense of what a life is like for a person in this place. It is never the perfect truth, but it does give you a glimpse. In history books, human experiences feel distant, but actually being there you pick up on so much more detail that can never be fully described with words.

Right now, the places on my bucket list are:
- Germany
- Rural France
- Scotland
- Norway
- Japan
- Australia
- Chile
- Spain