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Bummer. Looks like the U ran out of good skiers to post bios on after me…
Here is JCDC-trash talker Nik Aksamit’s bio, which I have on good authority that he wrote himself. Maybe it’s just the humble Californian in me talking, but why are all people from Idaho so vane and egotistical?
Well, I’m re-posting this one directly (and uncensored) from the University of Utah Ski Blog along with Nik’s favorite song of all time, which you can listen to by clicking the play button above.
Editor’s Note: Hundreds of students to come to the University of Utah each year to both study and to shred the Greatest Snow on Earth. Some become pretty well known, like Grete Eliassen, Tom Wallisch and Jen Hudak. Most shred unto the utmost while maximizing their educational opportunities to fullest. This is a look into the life of one of these students, Nik Aksamit, whose closest brushes with fame come from his cameos in GNAR The movie. (Hopefully, he pursues work in a field more closely related to his studies.)
Idaho bred Nik Aksamit, born 1988, crushed his first big dump no more than two years later. Proud as pickles, his parents gave him gratuitous amounts of high-fives. Several years later, in 2006, Aksamit, the duke of axe-caster, slayer of intermountain west (IMW) dumps everywhere IMW moved to Utah to pursue a degree in Mathematics. Number cruncher he is not (just wikipedia algebraic topology), thigh-five cruncher he is. His Idahomies invented the thigh-five somewhere in the vicinity of the 2006-2007 shit-for-brains ski season. While, so-I-married-an-AXE-murderer wasn’t present, he has been a purveyor of thigh-fives ever since his first sneak-peak.
Aks-him-a-kestion graduated with a BS in Math in Fall 2009. He spent the following season shralping all over the west, having a great time thigh-fiving his friends and placing poorly in big-mountain comps. Now, he is pursuing a graduate degree at the U in Pure Math, currently undertaking the beautiful trifecta of Algebra/Analysis/Topology. He loves math more than you love your parents, smiling babies, and gangster rap combined.
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