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LIVING & TRAVEL

Nicos Stavrou
interviewed by the Tripod Editors on March 22, 1996

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"Hopefully I'll get a job. Someone cannot live on loans forever."

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Nicos Stavrou joined Tripod last week, becoming our 25,000th member. We tracked him down to find out a little about this legendary figure.

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Tripod: How old are you?

NS: I'm 25 years old.

Tripod: Where are you from?

NS: I'm from Cyprus.

Tripod: You're a graduate student at Southwest Missouri State University, right? Studying what?

NS: I'm studying for my MBA with a concentration in Computer information systems.

Tripod: Where were you an undergraduate?

NS: My undergraduate degree started in Cyprus at the Tecnhical Institute where I got my Bachelor of technology in computers, and I transfered to complete it and get a bachelor of science in Computer information systems in Southwest Missouri State University.

Tripod: What do plan to do after graduate school?

NS: Hopefully I'll get a job. Someone cannot live on loans forever.

Tripod: How did you find Tripod? Why did you decide to join?

NS: Truthfully I don't remember how but I guess I was browsing around for fun one day when I saw the "FREE WEBSPACE" sign in some webpage. Here at the university we cannot have a webpage because they are afraid of lawsuits and the legal mambo jambo. The only ones allowed are departments and a handful of students taking a certain class with a certain professor because they have it on his computer.

Tripod: What's your favorite thing on Tripod?

NS: At first it was the fact that the webspace was given for free. Also the fact there is an option to modify very easily the web page's contents. The fact that you can be set up so easily also is great. Well, I guess I have more then one favorite thing in Tripod.

Tripod: What would you like to see more of on Tripod?

NS: More available webspace to put graphics in the web pages.

Tripod: How does it feel to be Tripod's 25,000th member?

NS: I feel left behind ... not. Where's the other 24,999 members?

Tripod: What's your favorite book?

NS: "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo.

Tripod: What's your favorite movie?

NS: Broken Arrow ... for now.

Tripod: What's your favorite website?

NS: I don't have one. I have a lot. Do about 300 bookmarks divided into different folders explain it?

Tripod: What do you like most about the web?

NS: The accessibility to information and the stuff you can download

Tripod: What's your favorite music group?

NS: I like Bob Marley and also a lot of other music groups mostly Greek ones.

Tripod: This is your 15 minutes of fame -- do you have a message for the world?

NS: Peace, health and the earth are the most valuable "things;" don't waste them.