CURRENT MISSION

finish med school

ABOUT ME

I'm currently in med school at AUC School of Medicine. Just finished up my two years of basic sciences in SXM, and I'm headed back up to Michigan to study for my USMLE Step 1 exam.

I love running with my Coconut Retriever Murphy who I adopted in SXM.
I am my own north star.
I'm independent and intense.
I'm sarcastic.
I love the feeling of accomplishment when hard work pays off.
I'm a perfectionist; I'm never satisfied with good enough.
If it didn't require some sort of sacrifice, it's probably not worth it.
I got a dirty mouth, but my kitchen's clean.
I'm at my best when I'm under pressure.
I forgive, but I don't forget.
I am a cunt.
I refuse to let anyone tell me I can't.
I really love 2% milk.
I enjoy learning about construction.
Med school has made a morning person out of me.
I compensate for my occasional lapses in common sense by coming up with brilliant solutions to random problems.

PHILOSOPHY

Audentes fortuna juvat.

I could have raised a family but I decided to raise hell.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Not much currently. But someday I will own a couch and people will surf it!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CouchSurfed with my best friend in Boston for a Dropkick Murphys concert. I would say I stayed with the most interesting man in the world, but I didn't stay with that guy from the Dos Equis commercials, so that would be a lie.

Interests

running, abandoned buildings and urban decay, exploring new places, befriending the locals, road trips, construction sites

• dogs
• concerts
• running
• backpacking
• medicine
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: Leon (The Professional), Tank Girl, Boondock Saints, Grindhouse, Natural Born Killers, Wedding Crashers, The Hangover, American History X, Fight Club, The Royal Tennenbaums, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Basterds, Everything is Illuminated, Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine, The Shawshank Redemption, Shoot 'Em Up, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

music: The Misfits, Dropkick Murphys, Rancid, Die Antwoord, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Portishead, The Pixies, Snakeout, Ramones, HorrorPops, The Sex Pistols, Nashville Pussy, Nine Pound Hammer, Social Distortion, Ben Harper, The Detroit Cobras, Pittsburgh Slim, The Dresden Dolls, Grindhouse: Death Proof Soundtrack, Bob Mould, The Adicts, The Bouncing Souls, Bad Religion, GWAR, Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones, Marilyn Manson, Tom Waits, Lords of Acid, NIN, Peaches, Osaka Popstar, classic rock, miscellaneous reggae, random blues

books: Cunt, Stone Butch Blues, How Doctors Think, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, The Man from St. Petersburg, Pillars of the Earth, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Two years ago I packed up my life in two large suitcases, one small one, and a backpack and moved to a foreign country for medical school. I'd never even had a passport before. Now I'm leaving SXM with two years of medical school under my belt, the best dog I could ask for, and a whole lot of things that can be filed under "life experiences."

Countries I’ve Visited

Anguilla, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Lucia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands Antilles, United States