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Overview

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  • Fluent in English; learning French, Spanish, Swedish
  • 33, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Biophysicist (at the moment)
  • B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago
  • From Springfield, Illinois, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Turning models into truths.

ABOUT ME

Talkative, clever, composed—but not subcutaneously.

PHILOSOPHY

The pursuit of clarity.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been on a few meet-ups within Stockholm (hiking, and whatnot) but I've never actually surfed. I'm pretty excited to give it a shot. I'm also looking forward to hosting when I get the chance.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've participated in some Stockholm local activities, but other than that I'm new to this.

Interests

I'm interested in math, models of anything, literary theory (arguments among post-structuralism, post-modernism, new historicism, and the likes), programming, math-related games, programming-related games, pretentious coffee, pretentious tea.

  • literature
  • coffee
  • hiking
  • languages
  • mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses, Raymond Carver's short stories, The Savage Detectives, 2666, Tres, Antwerp, The Girl with the Curious Hair, The Plague, Camera Lucida, Hamlet-Machine, The Art of Computer Programming, Linear Representations of Finite Groups, Cantor&Schimmel.

Music: Can, Erik Satie, Sonic Youth, Ty Segall, Sun Araw, Miles Davis, Lil B.

Movies (ranked): Kiarostami, Ozu, Panahi, Kubrick, Godard, Brakhage, Lynch, Herzog, Kurosawa, Seijun Suzuki.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

You know the biodome in Arizona?

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm interested in languages, but not so much fluency as little cultural and linguistic oddities. I tend to fall in love with regional foods wherever I go, so if you're savvy to the traditional dishes of your currently place of residence, that's a win.

I myself have a lot of facts to share. I've studied both literature and mathematics in University, so I can hit it off with both types of nerds. We can read through a modernist play, or I can teach you group theory. Or how to program. Or how to do some neat integrals.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Ireland, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sweden, United States

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