Why I'm a Computer Science major

I'll admit that most of my personal life is fairly uninteresting. Sure, I could talk about what effects my parents getting divorced when I was five has had on me (not much, overall). Maybe talk about some awesome friends I've had and how they have shaped me (hard to go into detail on that without lots of backstory). But I figure, hey, what's one of the questions that always floats around conversation here at the University? "What's your major?" So I'll explain what drove me to go into computer science.
  When I was around 12 years old, I started getting into the online forum community (mostly forums hosted by InvisionFree). Initially the main reason I had for joining different forums was to share my "Friend Code" or whatever it's called for my Nintendo DS games so I could play against people on the Internet. A natural consequence of getting involved in these forums was joining in discussions of games, strategies for different levels, and just general banter
  I started thinking, "You know what? I bet I could get more popular if I make my own forum and run it! Then people will join mine and it would be my own forum!" Long story short, it didn't make me more popular. I must have tried starting at least a dozen forums over the years, none of them were suddenly popular or anything. The main point is, I eventually started trying my hand at actually the design part of making a website (might as well just call the forum a website - which really it is). So I dabbled in changing little bits of the stylesheets and JavaScript code, gradually figuring out what things did and how to make them work.
  I eventually started actually making my own websites from scratch in around tenth grade (not using some template and putting words in it - actually writing the whole thing), and even got involved in my high school's robotics team as their website designer. I wasn't that good at it, but there weren't more than a handful of students in my school who had any interest in web design at all. I moved away from designing websites (which is a pain for me, since I'm not artistically creative) and just started playing around with the non-design parts of little web pages I'd make.

When it came time to look for colleges, I initially wanted to go into web design, but when I realized I didn't like actually "designing" things (as in the graphic design part of it), I opted for computer science or computer engineering. Who knew I liked computers? (That's sarcasm, of course.) My two older brothers had both come to the University of Minnesota, and I didn't feel like being the odd one out, so I applied here as well, and went into Computer Science.

Not much of a "mini-story", but that's how my involvement in online forums led me into Computer Science.