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Overview

  • 5 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Hindi, Tamil
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Graduate Student
  • Getting a PhD
  • From Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Make life exciting!

ABOUT ME

Ethnically Indian, aspiring world citizen.

Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering, Bioengineer by training.

Caffeine-Driven.

I read a lot, and exercise a lot when I'm not in one of my slack-a-thons.

I am bad with money, but good with making impulsive decisions (these are obviously related).

I like having intense conversations about stuff (if you buy me beer or even better, scotch).

I ride a sweet motorcycle and drive a shiny car, but couldn't afford either (if someone had not invented loans and credit cards).

More to come...

PHILOSOPHY

A world devoid of ALL boundaries: ethnic, racial, cultural, national and political! I would also love for there to be no geographical boundaries.. but there's only so much you can wish for.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm new to the CS community. I've heard good things, and hope to have some good experiences on here! Hoping to redden the rest of this map soon.
visited 14 states (28%)

visited 14 states (40%)

Interests

I love meeting new people, and can talk for hours about any subject!

  • arts
  • beer
  • fitness
  • exercise
  • music
  • guitar
  • boxing
  • cricket
  • gymnastics
  • chemistry
  • engineering
  • mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Listing all my favorite music will take a lot of effort, but I'm lazy right now, so I'll save that for later. Let me summarize rather inefficiently by saying that I love music from genres so far apart in the spectrum of musical genres (that I just invented) that they would be separated by a 100 EHz. (If you could follow that, you will likely get along with me. You probably would even otherwise!)

Movies and TV: Varies by mood, but I generally don't like slow drama. Love sci-fi and action!

Books: I've been getting into science non-fiction a lot lately. Harry Potter geek. Good science fiction always blows me away. History non-fiction getting into the details of important past events.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach: Boxing (I was/am an amateur boxer), Cricket (have played competitively), Conditioning and fitness in general, a little bit of Silambam (a dravidian martial art from Tamil Nadu, India), and Chemistry/Math (up to college level)

I want to learn: Guitar, Music Theory, Gymnastics

Countries I’ve Visited

United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, United States

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