Last updated: 30/05/2001

What can I say? I am a 3rd BSc student at the University of Cape Town (UCT) majoring in ...? Quite frankly I don't know so at the moment I'm just doing Physics, Applied Maths and Pure Maths. Next year I hope to do my honours in one of these subjects but which one remains an unsolved problem to this day. If all goes well I would be quite happy if someone decided to give me a MSc or a PhD but that is still a long way off.

Me and Fiske Here is a picture of Daniel and me (I'm the one on the left) from December 1997. The picture is from a live video feed which we had going while working as members of the International Olympiad of Informatics support staff for the IOI 97 which was held in Cape Town.

Biographical Information

Name Tobias Jerome Philip Brandt
Date of birth 23 May 1979
Place of birth Hamburg, Germany
Occupation Student
Place of study University of Cape Town
Highest qualification   Western Cape Matriculation Certificate

Interests

If you're really bored you can read my life story in the next section.

My Life Story

As you can see above I was born on the 23rd of May 1979 in Hamburg. As far as I can remember I was quite happy about that, especially since I think that the 23rd of May is one the best dates to have ones birthday on. Just think about it, 23 and 5 are both prime, the digit sums of both those numbers are 5, and it makes me a Gemini. With a birthday like that I must be destined for greatness!

For the next 5 years I lived in Hamburg which was nice enough since they have parks there with birds which will fly away and shit on other people's heads when one runs after them. There also existed at least one Kindergarten in Hamburg at the time which I attented. We then moved to Zurich in Switzerland for 4 years, and then back to Germany to a small town near Frankfurt, named Koenigstein, where I spent the next 3 years.

In early May 1992, two people with heavy suitcases and wearing long, dark brown trench coats boarded a plane from Frankfurt to Moscow. I don't know these men and have no idea why they were going to Moskau. At the same time though, four other people, also with heavy suitcases, boarded a plane to Johannesburg with a connecting flight to Port Elisabeth. One of these people was me in the last days of my 12th year of life. At the Port Elisabeth airport my parents rented a red Volkswagen Fox in which we drove to St. Francis Bay where I lived on weekends and holidays for the next 2 years. During the week I went to a boarding school near Port Elisabeth named Woodridge. Boarding school life was quite a change from the liberal, suburbian, german lifestyle I was used to before. Things like school uniforms and corporal punishment, I thought had died in the second world war along with 80 million people. German was also not quite the Lingua Franca I had taken it to be, and I quickly realised that it would be easier for me to learn english than to teach 600 people german.

(I'm getting bored now and will write the rest in abbreviated format.)
In 1994 we moved to Cape Town and lived in two or three other houses before we moved into our current home. I also went to some other schools but eventually Matriculated at Bishops (Diocesan College) in 1996.

I then enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1997 to do a Bachelor of Science degree(BSc) which I hope to complete this year.

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