Currently, I'm a first year Political Science Master Student, who has developed advanced skills of R programming and advanced skills of Python programming. I have some basic knowledge work with databases in XML.
I learned R and Python by trial and error, and not in the lecture rooms. I have a lot of experience in data mining, data visualisation, data analysis, functional programming in R. You'll probably be surprised, but political science is full of interesting questions that can be answered with statistical and machine learning methods.
In Python, I have some experience in OOP, web scraping, regex, and file manipulation.
Currently, I am studying and developing skills in machine learning both in R and Python.
Apart from that I am a fan of doing sports and healthy lifestyle. Occasionally, I draw and not in LaTeX or ggplot, but in water-colour or pencil :-)