CURRENT MISSION

To figure out what I want in life

ABOUT ME

So I just graduated from university with a mechanical engineering degree and have no idea what I want to do next. Ive been looking into graduate school, volunteering, starting a company, getting a job, or traveling as long as I possibly can. Im about (or currently if i end up not updating this very often) to take a 7 month trip circumnavigating the glob to help answer some of these questions

PHILOSOPHY

To put it simply:

"go big or go home"
-otto rocket

Or a little more in depth:

“It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It’s a dream already ended. There’s nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.”
-Jack Kerouac

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Right now I'm looking to host to pay back all that were so generous to me during an 8 month trip around south america.

Interests

Rock climbing, acoustic guitar, fixed gear bikes, dogs, hiking, camping, DIY projects, electronics, robotics

• dogs
• design
• perfumes
• diy
• electronics
• traveling
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• rock climbing
• engineering
• mathematics
• physics
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Indie Rock, Classic Rock, Alternative, Dubstep, House, and Hip Hop

Books: Siddhartha, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, anything by Thom Hartman, James bond books

Movies: Comedies and Documentaries

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seen a solar eclipse

Teach, Learn, Share

General Wood working, bike repair etc
mechanical design, physics, math...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States