Hi I'm Griffin! I'm an American college student studying world religions and cognitive science. I write a humor column and really like art and music. I just studied abroad in a monastery in Bodh Gaya, India where I learned a little Hindi (and a lot about Buddhism and meditation!)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My travel buddy had to go home early :( so I'm hoping to meet some nice people!

Interests

intersectional feminism, critical theory, live music, coffee, poetry, used clothing, camping, writing, friendship, adventures, college radio, plays, art, brain plasticity

• dogs
• arts
• writing
• poetry
• womens rights
• coffee
• running
• meditation
• thrifting
• clothing
• traveling
• painting
• music
• live music
• camping
• buddhist
• religion
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

I recently read Aziz Ansari's book and Kim Gordon's book and they were amazing, some of my fav authors are Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, and Sylvia Plath

I like "angry girl music", dad music, lo fi bedroom stuff, psych surf grunge yadda yadda, motown, oldies, rap/hip hop, nicki minaj (deserves her own shout out), 90s music, and then a lot of folk acoustic stuff, country, blues, blue grass. I'm not picky!

If we're being fancy I like Citizen Kane and Buster Keaton and all, (I took different film and media literacy classes in high school which was amazing and taught me a lot about "film") but I really like Wet Hot American Summer, The Punk Singer, Wristcutters: A love story, Wes Anderson, documentaries, bad movies on Netflix

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was the first women hired to my college radio station and now it's over half women, I'm going to run it next teach I'm pretty excited. I really love making music accessible, and planning shows for my campus lets me do that.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm really good at making friendship bracelets and puns. I can talk to you forever about religious studies and theory and historiography. I love learning anything! I share everything, (I'm not sure if this question means physically or emotionally) but you can have my sweatshirt or my virginity story as far as I'm concerned.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can make you an acrostic poem of your name and find you hot dogs and thrift stores no matter where I am, (its a super power), I'm friendly and I care a lot and I'll try to make you talk about your feelings and then we can get drunk or finger paint or something!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Denmark, England, France, India, Italy, South Africa, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, United States