OCE Space Simulation - User contributions [en]

Alex Mersereau

2016-02-17T19:47:10Z

Zenith755: Added details on fourth year, and added my training table. Also wrote Non-Mission Participation, Post-Graduation, and Current Goals sections.

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Alex Mersereau is a member of Spacesim and a former Education Commander who joined in [[2010-11]].

During his time in Spacesim, he left his mark on the club through several long-lasting contributions. He is credited with the discovery of the rogue planet [[Mersereau 2012 A]].

==Mission Participation==

In his first year, Alex was a dedicated member of Mission Control for Mission [[Dragan 2011]]. Due to a tendency to mumble and a great will to speak, he was most frequently found writing logs of events, rather than confusing people through CAPCOM. Unfortunately, his participation was limited, as he was in Grade 9 at the time, and could not afford to stay overnight or miss classes.

In his second year, Alex participated as a less-dedicated Simulator on Mission [[Red Sun 2012]]. Although he attended his Simulator shifts, he was also involuntarily signed up for mission control shifts by Education Subcommander Zola Magwood, all of which were unfortunately placed at times during school hours. Due to a long-standing perfect attendance record, Alex was forced to miss every mission control shift he had been signed up for. This has given some members of spacesim a misguided impression of low-commitment on his part. (Note: He later lost his perfect attendance record due to a single late arrival to a 4th period class by about a single minute.)

In his third year, Alex took on the role of the Engineer aboard the Habitat as an Astronaut for Mission [[Pritchett 2013]]. Serving his team well, Alex held one of that Mission's high scores for number of EVAs participated on. He also probably generated the most sweat in that time. When the Habitat was contaminated (biologically speaking), he volunteered to stay behind and control EECOM to decontaminate the crew in a safe and controlled manner. Alex's other contributions to the mission included his engineering skills, his ability to not eat a whole lot, and his constant streams of absolutely flawless jokes.

In his fourth year, Alex participated as an Astronaut for a second time on Mission [[Magellan 2014]]. Things went pretty well, but he slept through Lt [[Nova Kelly]]'s ankle spraining incident and Lt [[Spencer Whitehead]]'s purple water incident due to his sleep shift occupying 4 AM to 12 PM. Most of those late nights were spent watching Breaking Bad on Commander [[Patrick Melanson]]'s laptop.

===Post-Graduation===

After graduation, Alex remained a willing source of knowledge and enthusiastic participant on Mission [[Bifrost 2015]], though his participation was limited due to not actually being a high school student at the time. Nevertheless, he attempted to contribute his skills as best as possible during his attendance.

==Non-Mission Participation==

During his time in Spacesim, Alex gained a detailed understanding of most systems (with the exception of Piloting, though he has a rudimentary understanding of the system and could provide educated guesses on how things work at least). He was among the first to master the coolant system on Engineering when it was introduced prior to the 2013 mission, thus earning him the position as Engineer aboard the Hab. He remains a reliable source of information for just about every system that was in operation during his time in the club. Except Laura, god damn.

Alex served as the Education Commander in his fourth year. Leading up to this, he designed a number of posters for club week. During the course of his time as Education Commander, Alex gained a reputation for dragging out Friday lunch meetings longer than usual. He served the club with near-constant enthusiasm and almost flawless attendance, aside from the UTSDC weekend. Contrary to his predecessor Education Commanders, Alex focused his efforts inwards, attempting to strengthen the club's sense of community and culture. He sought to educate current members and foster a sense of enjoyment within the club. In his eyes, while his co-commander was focused on the functional operations of Spacesim, it was his own goal to keep its members entertained and excited about club activities.

Alex organized and operated the majority of the events of the 2014 Revenge Mission, which was a tremendous success.

==Current Goals==

As a former Education Commander, Alex currently hopes to continue his efforts to maintain the health of Spacesim's culture through emphasis on both official and unofficial logs taken during the mission.

List of Members

2013-09-17T22:04:39Z

Zenith755:

{{list}}
Below is a list of Spacesim Members organized by graduating year.

''Feel free to add any names that are not included. Remember to include a link in their respective wiki pages like so: "'''<nowiki>[[List of Spacesim Members#2010|12]]</nowiki>'''"''

This includes all space simulation members. That means everyone who was part of the [[OCESS]], [[OBESS]], or [[ISSS]], depending on the year. A '''/''' denotes a member who resigned or moved away, or a tangential member.

==Always==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold; text-align:left"|2 Members
|-
|[[Example Member]]
|-
|[[Uncle Travelling Matt]]
|}
 

==2017==
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|1 Member
|-
|Jared Kelly's Brother
|-
|}
 

==2016==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|8 Members
|-
|[[Zachary Jeffcott]]
|-
|[[Matthew MacDonald]]
|-
|[[Patrick Hum]]
|-
|[[Phillip Eglin]]
|-
|[[Spencer Whitehead]]
|-
|[[Ryan Osborne]]
|-
|[[Jared Kelly]]
|-
|[[Wade Theriault]]
|-
|}
 

==2015==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|6 Members
|-
|[[Caelan Rebus]]
|-
|[[Gavin Osborne]]
|-
|[[Soren Wainio-Theberge]]
|-
|[[Kayla Huber]]
|-
|[[Noah Slavich]]
|-
|[[Larissa Ulizky]]
|-
|}
 

==2014==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|8 Members
|-
|[[Trajan Lee]]
|-
|[[Daniel French]]
|-
|[[Rochelle Benoit]]
|-
|[[Rebecca Jeffcott]]
|-
|[[Alex Mersereau]]
|-
|[[Elliott Setzer]] (relatively unknown)
|-
|[[Patrick Melanson]]
|-
|[[Nick Paquin]]
|-
|}
 

==2013==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|12 Members
|-
|[[Jeremy Bredeson]]
|-
|[[Charlotte Bonyun]]
|-
|Leah Careless
|-
|[[Jackson Clarke]]
|-
|[[Matthew Dunbar]]
|-
|[[Samantha Downs]]
|-
|[[Richard Hum]]
|-
|[[Max Jeffcott]]
|-
|[[Lawrence Maroun]]
|-
|[[Emmett Molloy]]
|-
|[[Merissa Taylor-Meissner]]
|-
|Katherine Yee
|}
 

==2012==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|11 Members
|-
|[[Arrian Amir-Rafiei]]
|-
|[[Christian Angel]]
|-
|David Li
|-
|[[Jane MacLeod]]
|-
|[[Zola Magwood]]
|-
|Amanda McColl
|-
|Kyra McCormick
|-
|[[Morgan Mersereau]]
|-
|[[Adrienne Mills]]
|-
|David Wilson
|-
|}
 

==2011==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|17 Members
|-
|Colin Anderson
|-
|[[Samuel Baltz]]
|-
|[[Rutger Theodoor Ronald Jansen van Doorn Campbell]]
|-
|Molly Freedman
|-
|[[Nick Goddard]]
|-
|[[Ian Goldsmith-Rooney]]
|-
|Yvonne Ho
|-
|[[Amalissa Hum]]
|-
|[[Becca Kalinger]]
|-
|[[Chen-tao LaRochelle]]
|-
|[[Stuart Macdonald]]
|-
|[[Ian Martin]]
|-
|[[Alex Mendes]]
|-
|Matthew Pelletier
|-
|[[Austin Ramclam]]
|-
|[[Elizabeth Robson Gordon]]
|-
|[[Euan Wheaton]]
|-
|[[Bill Yang]]
|}
 

==2010==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|16 Members
|-
|[[Dan Anderson]]
|-
|[[Bryn Beynon]]
|-
|[[Cheyenne Carty]]
|-
|[[Matt Farkas-Dyck]]
|-
|Evan Fleming-Herring
|-
|[[Olivia Frank]]
|-
|[[Chris Hawthorne]]
|-
|Todd Kilstrom
|-
|Mimi Lam
|-
|[[Peter Macdonald]]
|-
|[[Clayton Nguyen]]
|-
|[[Ben Paul]]
|-
|[[Maclean Rouble]]
|-
|[[Mikaela Stiver]]
|-
|[[Bryce Storey]]
|-
|Marianne To
|-
|}
 

==2009==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|4 Members
|-
|[[Andy Chen]]
|-
|Josh Delrio
|-
|[[Arthur Quang]]
|-
|[[Daisy Wong]]
|-
|}
 

==2008==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|11 Members
|-
|[[Guangye Cao]]
|-
|Eva Demers-Brett
|-
|[[Jeff Gao]]
|-
|Dan Goddard
|-
|[[Nevin Hotson]]
|-
|[[Jen Li]]
|-
|Liz Tarzwell
|-
|Yan Jing
|-
|Linxi Li
|-
|[[Anthony Xing]]
|-
|Sylvia Wang
|-
|}
 

==2007==
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|10 Members
|-
|[[Kevan Adlard]]
|-
|[[James Cooper]]
|-
|Lauren Delrio
|-
|[[Stefan De Young]]
|-
|[[Alex Foo]]
|-
|[[Brian Foo]]
|-
|Kenneth Lindsay
|-
|[[Jonathan Scothorn]]
|-
|Simon Sokyrko
|-
|[[Lianna Teeter]]
|-
|}
 

==2006==
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|4 Members
|-
|Steven Mair
|-
|[[Stephen Smith]]
|-
|[[Crystal Xiao]]
|-
|Chen Chen Zhang
|-
|}
 

==2005==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|2 Members
|-
|Tong Shen
|-
|[[Songyan Cai]]
|}
 

==2004==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|3 Members
|-
|Bryan Adlard
|-
|[[Calvin Jary]]
|-
|Dan Sirbu
|-
|Bo Wang
|-
|}
 

==2003==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|0 Known Members
|-
|}
 

==2002==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|14 Members
|-
|[[Saber Amini]]
|-
|[[Ram Ananth]]
|-
|[[Michael Bousada]]
|-
|[[Jennifer Craven]]
|-
|[[Alex Ghosh]]
|-
|[[Ross Green]]
|-
|[[Leigh Honeywell]]
|-
|[[Jingping Ji]]
|-
|[[Kyle Maru]]
|-
|[[Matthew Mazowita]]
|-
|[[Jordan Nikoloyuk]]
|-
|[[Matt Rosen]]
|-
|[[Wajid Sayeed]]
|}
 

==2001==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|6 Members
|-
|[[Roman Dzioba]]
|-
|[[Owen Jacobson]]
|-
|[[Vivien Milat]]
|-
|[[Michael Oda]]
|-
|[[David Owen]]
|-
|[[Gabrielle Wilson]]
|}
 

==2000==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|11 Members
|-
|[[Avi Caplan]]
|-
|[[James Clark]]
|-
|[[Margot Cragg]]
|-
|[[Adam Feiner]]
|-
|[[Dominik Ken]]
|-
|[[Thomas Kruidenier]]
|-
|[[Emilian Papadopoulos]]
|-
|[[Elizabeth Smith]]
|-
|[[Bryan Tice]]
|-
|[[Emily Tyson]]
|-
|[[Eric Weese]]
|-
|}
 

==1999==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|4 Members
|-
|[[Katie Blakley]]
|-
|[[Geoffrey Delage]]
|-
|[[Daniel Kekez]]
|-
|[[Peter Oakham]]
|-
|}
 

==1998==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|11 Members
|-
|[[Adam Elliot]]
|-
|[[Martha Holmes]]
|-
|[[Marlene Keeley]]
|-
|[[Neil Leathers]]
|-
|[[Cameron Morland]]
|-
|[[Geoffrey Oakham]]
|-
|[[Terri Oda]]
|-
|[[Marc Rizkallah]]
|-
|[[Meghan Roberts]]
|-
|[[Asad Sayeed]]
|-
|[[Emily Thorn]]
|-
|}
 

==1997==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|9 Members
|-
|[[Fletcher Blake]]
|-
|[[Nicholas Chop]]
|-
|[[Andria Green]]
|-
|[[Marcus Ma]]
|-
|[[Margaret McCarthy]]
|-
|[[Sarah Mark]]
|-
|[[Marlon Tang]]
|-
|[[Van Anh Truong]]
|-
|[[Loh John Wu]]
|-
|}
 

==1996==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|9 Members
|-
|[[Jessica Eden]]
|-
|[[Shauna Friesen]]
|-
|[[Wendy Hagglund]]
|-
|[[Jordan Melzer]]
|-
|[[Liam Morland]]
|-
|[[Hilary Myron]]
|-
|[[Miriam Padolsky]]
|-
|[[Hyung Song]]
|-
|[[Ayse Turak]]
|-
|[[Amy Watson]]
|-
|}
 

==1995==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|7 Members
|-
|[[Vikram Bajaj]]
|-
|[[Jeff Dubrule]]
|-
|[[Madhava Enros]]
|-
|[[Aven McMaster]]
|-
|[[Anatole Papadopoulos]]
|-
|[[Samia Sheikh]]
|-
|[[Chris Thompson]]
|-
|}
 

==1994==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|2 Members
|-
|[[Jennifer Kassie]]
|-
|[[Kajal Khanna]]
|-
|}
 

==1993==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|2 Members
|-
|[[Neil Fraser]]
|-
|[[Kirsten Weisz]]
|-
|}
 

==1992==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|1 Members
|-
|[[Brad Browne]]
|-
|}
 

==1991==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|8 Members
|-
|[[Elizabeth Caskey]]
|-
|[[Jeffrey Cavill]]
|-
|[[Manning Chiang]]
|-
|[[Jim Clarke]]
|-
|[[Christian Jaekl]]
|-
|[[Aram Shahparaki]]
|-
|[[Fahim Sheikh]]
|-
|[[Leonard Tse]]
|-
|}
 

==1990==
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|1 Members
|-
|[[David Junk]]
|-
|}
 

==Unclassified==

===OCESS and OBESS===
 
{|class = "collapsible collapsed" style = "width:40%; text-align:center;"
!style="text-decoration:bold;text-align:left"|1 Members
|-
|Simar Akhtar
|-
|Shafagh Alikhani
|-
|Alexander Alvarenga-Sala
|-
|Saber Amini
|-
|Ram Ananth
|-
|Adrian Archer
|-
|Vikram Bajaj
|-
|Aga Bajger
|-
|Jonathan Beverley
|-
|Katie Blakley
|-
|Michael Bousada
|-
|Jennie Brebner
|-
|Sarah Brebner
|-
|Chris Brown
|-
|Brad Browne
|-
|Ian Cantello
|-
|Avi Caplan '' - ([[User:Avi Caplan]])''
|-
|Jeannine Charles
|-
|Innie Chen
|-
|Lawrence Cheng
|-
|Francis Cheung
|-
|James Clark
|-
|Nadezhda Colova
|-
|Neil Costford
|-
|Kristen Coupland
|-
|Margot Cragg
|-
|Jennifer Craven
|-
|Patrick Cross
|-
|Rebecca Danard
|-
|Shain Davidson
|-
|Hannah Davis
|-
|Geoffrey Delage
|-
|Ye Deng
|-
|James Ding
|-
|David Du
|-
|Jefferson Dubrule
|-
|Roman Dzioba
|-
|Jessica Eden
|-
|Ralph Edwards
|-
|Kinnon Elliot
|-
|Madhava Enros
|-
|Jen Faulkner
|-
|Adam Feiner '' - ([[User:Adam Feiner]])''
|-
|Betty Ferch
|-
|Helena Forbes
|-
|Justin Francis
|-
|Charles de Gaulle
|-
|[[Alex Ghosh]]
|-
|[[Ross Green]]
|-
|Derek Griffiths
|-
|Claire Grimwood
|-
|Xioran Guo
|-
|Grant Harding
|-
|Paul Hollensen
|-
|Martha Holmes
|-
|Tyla Holmes
|-
|Leigh Honeywell
|-
|Sarah Hooshangi
|-
|Ophira Horwitz
|-
|Moeed Israr
|-
|Owen Jacobson
|-
|Mikhaela Jason
|-
|Rebecca Jensen-Sage
|-
|Jingping Ji
|-
|Margaret Jones
|-
|Emily Joyce
|-
|Mark Karpinski
|-
|Jen Kassie
|-
|Jeff Kemp
|-
|Dominik Ken
|-
|Kajal Khanna
|-
|Tom Krudenier
|-
|Ben Lahaise
|-
|Robert Lance
|-
|Peter Leimbigler
|-
|Karen Li
|-
|Yi Liu
|-
|Courtney Loop
|-
|Marcus Ma
|-
|Heather Macdougall
|-
|Fen Mai
|-
|Patrick Manhire
|-
|Kyle Maru
|-
|Diana McBurney
|-
|Margaret McCarthy
|-
|Aven McMaster
|-
|Douglas McMillan
|-
|Brad Meredith
|-
|Mark Mielke
|-
|Vivien Milat
|-
|David Mitchell
|-
|Isaac Morland
|-
|Karyn Mundy
|-
|Tu-Anh Nguyen
|-
|Jordan Nikoloyuk
|-
|Peter Oakham
|-
|Michael Oda
|-
|Pat Odolphski
|-
|Maarouf Osmany
|-
|[[Anatole Papadopoulos]]
|-
|Emile Papadopoulos
|-
|Joanna Pay
|-
|Ekaterina Permiakova
|-
|Graham Preston
|-
|Elizabeth Pulman
|-
|Eric Quon-Lee
|-
|Ian Richards
|-
|Jamie Rosen
|-
|Matt Rosen
|-
|Nalin Sahni
|-
|Leonardo Santamaria
|-
|Wajid Sayeed
|-
|Aram Shahparaki
|-
|Washington Shao
|-
|Mike Shaver
|-
|Stephanie Shaver
|-
|Fahim Sheikh
|-
|Samia Sheikh
|-
|Sam Shepherd
|-
|George Showman
|-
|Dan Sirbu '' - ([[User:DanS]])''
|-
|[[Val Sirbu]]
|-
|Emily Smirle
|-
|Derek Smith
|-
|Elizabeth Smith
|-
|Hyung Song
|-
|Hang Tan
|-
|Yuanbin Tang
|-
|Chris Thompson
|-
|Bryan Tice
|-
|Steve Ting
|-
|Derek Tsang
|-
|Emily Tyson
|-
|Jesse Watson
|-
|Eric Weese
|-
|Maxwell Wellington
|-
|Alex Wenzowski
|-
|Kevin Williams
|-
|Adam Wilson
|-
|Gabrielle Wilson
|-
|Kong Wei Yew
|-
|Towfiqa Yasmeen
|-
|Josh Zahl
|-
|Junci Zhang
|-
|Yi Yuan Zhao
|-
|[[Nikolas Zuchowicz]]
|-

Alex Mersereau

2013-09-17T21:23:33Z

Zenith755:

{{member | picture = FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
|Name = Alex Mersereau
|grade = [[List of Spacesim Members#2014|12]]
|school = [[Lisgar Collegiate]]
|curpos = Education Commander
|forpos = N/A
}}

Alex Mersereau is a member of Spacesim who joined in [[2010-11]].

His accomplishments thus far are relatively few and far between, with the most recent being the discovery of the rogue planet [[Mersereau 2012 A]].

==Mission Participation==

In his first year, Alex was a dedicated member of Mission Control for Mission [[Dragan 2011]]. Due to a tendency to mumble and a great will to speak, he was most frequently found writing logs of events, rather than confusing people through CAPCOM. Unfortunately, his participation was limited, as he was in Grade 9 at the time, and could not afford to stay overnight or miss classes.

In his second year, Alex participated as a less-dedicated Simulator on Mission [[Red Sun 2012]]. Although he attended his Simulator shifts, he was also involuntarily signed up for mission control shifts by Education Subcommander Zola Magwood, all of which were unfortunately placed at times during school hours. Due to a long-standing perfect attendance record, Alex was forced to miss every mission control shift he had been signed up for. This has given some members of spacesim a misguided impression of low-commitment on his part.

For the third mission, Alex took on the role of the Engineer aboard the Habitat as an Astronaut. Serving his team well, Alex held one of that Mission's high scores for number of EVAs participated on. He also probably generated the most sweat in that time. When the Habitat was contaminated (biologically speaking), he volunteered to stay behind and control EECOM to decontaminate the crew in a safe and controlled manner. Alex's other contributions to the mission included his engineering skills, his ability to not eat a whole lot, and his constant streams of absolutely flawless jokes.

==Reign as Education Commander==

Being that, at the time of writing, it is only two weeks into the 2013-2014 year, there's not much to write here. It's going to be a good year though.

Alex Mersereau

2013-09-17T21:23:16Z

Zenith755:

{{member | picture = FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
|Name = Alex Mersereau
|grade = [[List of Spacesim Members#2014|11]]
|school = [[Lisgar Collegiate]]
|curpos = Education Commander
|forpos = N/A
}}

Alex Mersereau is a member of Spacesim who joined in [[2010-11]].

His accomplishments thus far are relatively few and far between, with the most recent being the discovery of the rogue planet [[Mersereau 2012 A]].

==Mission Participation==

In his first year, Alex was a dedicated member of Mission Control for Mission [[Dragan 2011]]. Due to a tendency to mumble and a great will to speak, he was most frequently found writing logs of events, rather than confusing people through CAPCOM. Unfortunately, his participation was limited, as he was in Grade 9 at the time, and could not afford to stay overnight or miss classes.

In his second year, Alex participated as a less-dedicated Simulator on Mission [[Red Sun 2012]]. Although he attended his Simulator shifts, he was also involuntarily signed up for mission control shifts by Education Subcommander Zola Magwood, all of which were unfortunately placed at times during school hours. Due to a long-standing perfect attendance record, Alex was forced to miss every mission control shift he had been signed up for. This has given some members of spacesim a misguided impression of low-commitment on his part.

For the third mission, Alex took on the role of the Engineer aboard the Habitat as an Astronaut. Serving his team well, Alex held one of that Mission's high scores for number of EVAs participated on. He also probably generated the most sweat in that time. When the Habitat was contaminated (biologically speaking), he volunteered to stay behind and control EECOM to decontaminate the crew in a safe and controlled manner. Alex's other contributions to the mission included his engineering skills, his ability to not eat a whole lot, and his constant streams of absolutely flawless jokes.

==Reign as Education Commander==

Being that, at the time of writing, it is only two weeks into the 2013-2014 year, there's not much to write here. It's going to be a good year though.