User:Eustress

Greetings!
My (user) name is Eustress and I appreciate your visit. I am a Millenial living in the United States of America. I love Wikipedia and want to make it the best it can be!

I joined Wikipedia on November 10, 2007. I decided to register with Wikipedia because some of my anonymous edits kept being deleted and my IP address blocked (and probably with good reason), so I decided I wanted to take a look behind the scenes. Since then, I have developed a great love and appreciation for the Wikipedia community for its (mostly) selfless collaborative pursuit of truth. I was also motivated to edit Wikipedia because I really enjoy learning new things, and I believe that you learn best when you have to research something and then somehow report it. I am in front of a computer frequently throughout the day, so Wikipedia is a very fun, enlightening, and convenient hobby.

My major mainspace contributions to Wikipedia so far include heavy editing to articles (in alphabetical order) related to businesses, people, religions, and universities—all personal interests. But every once in a while I do a random article search or just follow different links to spice things up and broaden my horizons.

Origin of Eustress

The word eustress is a combination of the Greek prefix eu meaning either "well" or "good" and the English word "stress". It literally means "good stress", and it is formally defined as stress that is healthy and produces a feeling of fulfillment. I chose eustress as my username because I feel that I have a lot of it in my life, and, good or not, stress is stress, and editing on Wikipedia is a way for me to take a break from normal life and do something meaningful (and, I'd add, learn a lot from other people like you)—so the name seemed like a good fit!

Awards

	The Original Barnstar Congratulations on bringing the Marriott School of Management up to GA status. You put a lot of work into getting it there. Alanraywiki (talk) 19:04, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
	The Editor's Barnstar For making edit after edit to Yao Ming, I, Basketball110Talk, hereby award you 'The Editor's Barnstar'. Basketball110Talk 23:26, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thank you for going above and beyond to help—there isn't an award that properly expresses how wonderful it is to be mentored by you. Loni (talk) 21:12, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
	The Environmental Barnstar Awarded for support in WikiProject Environment. OhanaUnitedTalk page 02:17, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
	The Editor's Barnstar Congratulations on completing the challenge, and adding an infobox to 25 articles. Your contributions as always, help improve the encyclopedia. Great job! -- iMatthew T.C. 19:15, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
	The Creator of the Barnstar For creating the Medicine Barnstar, I hereby award you with the Barnstar Creator's Barnstar!! Good work!! :-) - k|e|n|g - t | c - 02:11, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
	The Adopt-a-User Barnstar Thank you for your excellent guidance and encouragement to a beginning editor. I will go forth and seek to serve Wikipedia well. Wpwatchdog (talk) 21:24, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
	The Purple Barnstar Because like this barnstar, you stand out with exceptional vibrancy! Ecoleetage (talk) 00:39, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
	The Special Barnstar For organizing my userboxes. The New MIKEmoral (contribs) 21:16, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
	The Rescue Barnstar This is to thank Eustress, for holding my hand and helping save Rideau! Rock on, Eustress. Rock on. Cfscwg (talk) 03:18, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar For your participation in the Spring 2009 GAN backlog elimination drive, in which you reviewed 5 articles, you are granted this barnstar! Great work! —The participants on the Spring 2009 GAN backlog elimination drive 21:20, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
	The Barnstar Barnstar For refueling other users by giving them barnstars. -download | sign! 02:43, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
	The E=mc² Barnstar For developing the article on the MRB Constant and for sharing it with the world. Marvin Ray Burns (talk) 21:15, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
	The Motivation Barnstar For motivating others by putting challeges on the Reward Board. -download | sign! 02:23, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
	The Good Article Reviewer's Medal of Merit Congratulations on completing the challenge and reviewing 10 articles at WP:GAN. Great job, and keep it up! iMatthew T.C. 18:22, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow the Triple Crown upon Eustress for your contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FA. Cirt (talk) 23:55, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Eustress has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Eustress' day! For exemplifying the qualities of an outstanding Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, Eustress! Cheers, bibliomaniac15 05:17, 3 May 2009 (UTC)