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Overview

  • 12 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • No occupation listed
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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

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