ABOUT ME

Native New Yorker who loves to travel. I graduated with a degree in neuroscience and will be studying medicine in the near future. Very open to new experiences and trying to take as much as the world in as possible.

I enjoy good music, good food, and good company.

PHILOSOPHY

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love meeting people from around the world. Once I've got my apartment situation sorted I'd love to host people in New York!

Interests

Mtime is currently split between doing research in a lab, studying, working, and hanging out with friends. When I have the occasional time for myself, I like to spend it by exploring my city - trying new restaurants, or finding a new little niche I had never known about. Other times, I like to explore with my culinary skills. I've recently learned to make sushi!

• dining
• cocktails
• traveling
• socializing
• magic
• music
• medicine
• neuroscience

Music, Movies, and Books

Wes Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino --> my favorite directors of all time! Besides that I enjoy dark films with a bit of quirkiness and charm.

I love alternative music, indie pop, indie rock. Open to new music always. I love attending concerts as well.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

While it may not be considered "amazing" by others - being stopped by a Turkish rug salesman and listening to him talk about his craft for an hour and a half while enjoying tea and baklava was truly an unforgettable experience that was so representative of my overall experience in Istanbul. A place that is very dear to my heart and I hope to someday go back to.

Teach, Learn, Share

When you are feeling lost, down or depressed remember this: In all the aeons we have lost nothing, we have gained nothing - not a speck, not a grain, not a breath. The universe is simply a sealed, twisting kaleidoscope that has reordered itself a trillion trillion trillion times over.

Each baby, then, is a unique collision - a cocktail, a remix - of all that has come before: made from molecules of Napoleon and stardust and comets and whale tooth; colloidal mercury and Cleopatra’s breath: and with the same darkness that is between the stars between, and inside, our own atoms.

When you know this, you suddenly see the crowded top deck of the bus, in the rain, as a miracle: this collection of people is by way of a starburst constellation. Families are bright, irregular-shaped nebulae. Finding a person you love is like galaxies colliding.

We are all peculiar, unrepeatable, perambulating micro-universes - we have never been before and we will never be again. Oh God, the sheer exuberant, unlikely face of our existences. The honor of being alive. They will never be able to make you again. Don’t you dare waste a second of it thinking something better will happen when it ends. Don’t you dare.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States