CURRENT MISSION

I am currently doing neuroscience research at Ruhr University of Bochum (Germany) by day, and exploring the rest of Germany and Europe by weekend and night!

ABOUT ME

Am a grad student in LA living on the westside. Just got back from Germany for a summer internship and traveling. I want to see the world and meet the people in it. To truly connect with others we must push ourselves out of our confort zone and explore. My dream is to study the brain and find the exact outlines where materialism/determinsim breaks down into the soul. Also, I like cheese :-)

PHILOSOPHY

"Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity." - Karl Marx

"What does it mean to evolve? Evolution moves toward greater complexity, greater elegance, greater knowledge, greater intelligence, greater beauty, greater creativity, and more of other abstract and subtle attributes such as love. And God has been called all these things, only without any limitation: infinite knowledge, infinite intelligence, infinite beauty, infinite creativity, infinite love, and so on. Of course, even the accelerating growth of evolution never achieves an infinite level, but as it explodes exponentially, it certainly moves rapidly in that direction. So evolution moves inexorably toward our conception of God, albeit never quite reaching this ideal. Thus the freeing of our thinking from the severe limitations of its biological form may be regarded as an essential spiritual quest." - Ray Kurzweil

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just got my own apt on the westside with a great pullout couch. Looking forward to having you use it!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed in Germany, Denmark, Barcelona, and other Europe spots.

Interests

reading; science; philosophy of mathematics; traveling; brewing and drinking beer; meeting you!!!!!!!

• fish
• arts
• beauty
• cheese
• beer
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• fishing
• backpacking
• business
• mathematics
• neuroscience
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Books:
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Stand by D. Hofstadter
Logicomix: The Quest for Truth
Jonathon Livingston Seagull
The Chosen
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay
Chaos by James Gleick

Music:
Very eclectic taste. My favorite band is The Doors. Also love Regina Spectker, Bright Eyes, Jack Johnson, Disturbed, Metallica, Infected Mushroom, Tupac Shakur, etc...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Backpacking through the Costa Rican rainforest!

Teach, Learn, Share

I brew my own beer. I have been doing so for over 2 years and gotten quite decent at it. Its a very easy process that, at its bare-minimum, takes a few steps of preparing and 2 weeks of fermenting. Would love to teach this most ancient and noble of arts to anyone interested!

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, Denmark, Germany, Nicaragua, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States