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Overview
About Me
Always up for capers, hijinks, and adventures. My big traveling dream is to sail around the world and write a couple of novels. I love science and how it helps us better understand the world so I'm getting my PhD.
Edit: I realize I look like a baby in all these photos, I should update them. I promise I am a grizzled adult now.
PHILOSOPHY
I am going, I am going,
any which way the wind may be blowing.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I couchsurfed through the west coast of Ireland and it was excellent. I've hosted a couple of times with good friendly people on roadtrips etc. Last summer I went busking and hitch-hiking west to Berkeley and when I got there I hung out with couchsurf folks. I wish everybody was like the people I've met through CS. Add Italy and a couple of great Chicago hosting experiences to the list.
Interests
Hobbies: I love playing my guitar. I'm a nerd who sits around fiddling with gizmos and gadgets. I'm volunteering at a nonprofit teaching southside kids to program and hack (but really I'm just having fun making stuff).
I love the outdoors, camp hike sail swim and scuba dive a little. Chicago has some cool prairies and marshland and a couple of woods, but most of it's really over-developed so I like to travel.
In school, I study the physics behind how organisms develop from simple embryos into the diverse array of species we see. I hope that someday we can understand our natural world well enough that we don't have to keep fighting with it in order to make progress.
- technology
- traveling
- guitar
- outdoor activities
- hiking
- camping
- scuba diving
- sailing
- swimming
- physics
- science
- hitchhiking
- volunteering
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies:
Good directors, classics, docs, sci-fi, mystery
Music:
Old time, blues, Irish folk music, Shostakovich's string quartets, Stravinsky, Radiohead, The Velvet Underground, The Shins
Books:
ancient history and mythology, science and mathematics textbooks, Sherlock Holmes, lots of sci-fi, Shakespeare
Countries I’ve Visited
Ireland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
United States