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Giancarlo Colombo
Quest Staff Member 2003

Hometown: Dallas, TX School: Stanford Major: Public Policy

Giancarlo's dream is to live around the world and learn to cook ethnic foods extremely well, speak Italian, French, Portuguese, Farsi, and Japanese, play music, and help people. A professional jazz pianist, he developed his love for music, challenges, and deep study through serious classical instruction which began when he was three years old. He began his studies in jazz during the summer before eighth grade because of his fascination with the possibilities of improvisation as well as with the ability of people to spontaneously compose. Jazz converted him to a lover because of its sound, and improvisation attracted him because he liked that numbers and letters are a basis for creation in jazz. He is working on feeling satisfied that he will never be able to achieve a state of musical perfection or even a final musical product. Giancarlo is entering his second year at Stanford this upcoming fall of 2003, and he wishes that as a Public Policy major and math minor he will find ways to utilize his love for math to see to it that others "do good and do well" for themselves. He has not fully uncovered what the concepts of helping people and personal happiness mean for him, but his definitions keep growing stronger. Giancarlo is a fun-loving guy who lives to see people's smiles.