CURRENT MISSION

finding out what kind of eggs i prefer?

ABOUT ME

I'm currently a first year grad student at Harvard. I went to undergrad at Stanford. I am really open to anything, and look forward to meeting new people, doing new things, checking out new places....

PHILOSOPHY

i guess i am an existentialist in that i think that the world is absurd and we all just have to pick our poisons - our delusions - in living the world. i guess i would be a christian existentialist a la kierkegaard since i believe some sort of belief in a higher power (whether or not it takes the form of a diety) is critical to humanity; and since i believe in a deeply personal relationship with god. also, i don't care what other people do and am incredibly socially liberal. i probably am not a good traditional christian either, but i think that the personal relationship is all that matters and that its not necessary to judge

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm back at Stanford for the next 3 months. I have a sweet single right smack dab in the middle of campus, so I can definitely host. Logistics will be a bit difficult as you need a ID card to swipe into the dorm and I only have one key and one ID card (neither of which I can give you sorry), but we could work it out. You can visit via Caltrain from San Fran or San Jose, and I can definitely give you a tour of campus. I'm back after 8 months abroad and am rediscovering the campus, so that'd be fine with me. I can even help you sneak into some classes you find interesting, if you'd like. We have an amazing Media/Microtext library as well so we can watch all sorts of old movies and stuff on the screen in my room...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

have had AMAZING CS experiences in europe - prague, vienna, and frankfurt, barcelona, paris, brussels...really really amazing. its a great way to travel, to meet locals or people living in the city, get a sense for the pace of life there, the daily culture, day-to-day way of life...not just ticking off monuments or museums off your list, which are interesting but don't really have any useful or reusable information and have become formulaic and boring to me

Interests

anything at all, since i haven't tried a lot. but so far, i know i love sweet, fruity, and fizzy wines + cocktails, listening to people's stories and quirky experiences, eating local, cultural cuisine, doing spontaneous things, sleeping, writing, chocolate, old movies, carbonara, gelato (il massimo de gelato in milan is THE best), games, teas, chocolate, movies

• culture
• writing
• cooking
• chocolate
• cocktails
• movies
• traveling
• swimming
• communications

Music, Movies, and Books

crime and punishment, marat/sade, clockwork orange, thomas crowne affair, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Damien Rice, Keane, Snow Patrol, Something Corporate, Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Jay Chou, Sibelius Violin Concerto (especially the 3rd movement), Bright Eyes, Tiziano Ferro, The Hatch, Priscilla Ahn, hero, hotel rwanada, house of mirth, proof, chiara, age of innocence, amelie

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i saw the olympic protests in san francisco and snapped pictures of elton john who apparently no one else knew was there; i also have signatures from the us gold medal swimming team from beijing (ironic, lol)

Teach, Learn, Share

i want to learn about cooking everywhere in the world. simple, practical, traditional, everyday dishes and holiday dishes alike.

i make a really good spaghetti carbonara, and some great chocolate chip cookies.

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