CURRENT MISSION

At the sake of being trite, to explore and experience new things and meet new people.

ABOUT ME

I'm a science major, studying to be a doctor, hopefully. I'm looking into entering the PeaceCorps, and hope that I can do something service-related. I've come to realize that I've failed to take advantage of life, so I'm trying to change that fact everyday.

I'm pretty laid back, but meticulous when it comes to getting things done. I like to read and to relax in good company. New things.

PHILOSOPHY

I think one important thing I've come to understand is the draw to the center. Whenever you experience something unknown or foreign or odd, it forces to you to establish boundaries and draw back into a position that permits you to analyze and interpret the experience, and this is the single most important factor for growth and personal development. You have to have a basis, and it forces you to figure out what it is.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Way too little...

Interests

Rugby, making and listening to music, soccer, all things science and math, the occasional game of chess, reading, writing, especially short stories, gardens and garden plants, vegan food/alternative diets, relaxing, and growing up. GASP!

• writing
• dining
• vegan
• gardening
• chess
• reading
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• soccer
• rugby
• mathematics
• medicine
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
Saves the Day, Owen, Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, Sun Kil Moon, Xiu Xiu, Badly Drawn Boy, Belle & Sebastian, Grandaddy, the Get-Up Kids, Pedro the Lion, Pinback, Malajube, the Pillows, the Rosebuds, Why?, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, and many many more

Movies
Anything zombie. Anything.

Randomly listing first ten that I see on my computer... The Big Lebowski, anything by Studio Ghibli, the Adventures of Milo and Otis, Amelie, the Kill Bill Saga, Lost in Translation, Good Will Hunting, Synechdoche, New York, American Beauty, and American History X

Books
Currently reading a short story anthology

Anything non-fiction, the Tao of Pooh, anything by Kahlil Gibran, the poetry of e. e. cummings. Really like Herman Hesse. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The first time I ever entered a plane, I skydove out of it. Is skydove the correct past tense?

Anyways, I jumped out a plane.

Teach, Learn, Share

I play the guitar.
I can speedsolve Rubik's cubes.
I am mechanically inclined.
I am taking Japanese at school, and can speak it.