CURRENT MISSION

Write awesome useful thesis, get to know more interesting people, fit piano in my room and schedule, improve my Dutch

ABOUT ME

Hello there.

My name is Matvei (or Matt), and I am studying applied mathematics at the LSE with humble hopes of making something useful out this degree - like inventing a cure for cancer or, at least, growing more tasty seedless tangerines.

I have already tried like thousands professions, including interpreter, primary school tutor, delivery boy, financial markets researcher, corporate finance analyst at the private equity and strategy consultant. From the looks of it, I'm sticking to last one for the next couple of years after the graduation.

Music is my real passion (or at least it used to be) - I played guitar and sang in a band during my undergrad degree. Unfortunately, I haven't touched a guitar ever since, however, I promised myself to bring music back to my life after I go through the tough studying period (as if it will ever end)).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Traveled across Northern Europe when was studying in the Netherlands. Hope I was an interesting guest for all my noble hosts)

Will host as soon as I will switch to a lifestyle involving less than 12 hours of working or studying a day.

Interests

Traveling (there was almost a year long pause in my CS activity due a very time-consuming job), recording music (I used to play a little bit on almost every musical instrument), studying maths and learning languages (Dutch, at the moment); I am cooking curious

I'm also into photography - you can check out most of the stuff I did here: http://vk.com/albums4245326

• photography
• cooking
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• business
• teaching
• languages
• mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Crossroads, Cube, In Bruges, Good Will Hunting, The Pianist, 12 Monkeys, Memento, the Social Network, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Grosse point blank, Dirty pretty things, Das Leben der Anderen

TV series (latest): Young doctor's notebook, Louie CK

Books: 1984, The Chronicles of Amber, Ilf and Petrov, Sergey Lukyanenko, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Stanislav Lem, The Master and Margarita and Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov, some of the Dostoevsky's novels

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Trip to Morocco, when me and my friend spontaneously rented a car and went through the south of totally new for us country

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: maths to a certain level, Russian, making most neat slides (common, I worked for the BCG), solving business case studies

Learn: Dutch, playing/recording any kind of music on any instrument, interesting stuff about your city or neighborhood, cooking

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Netherlands, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

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