Born and raised in Chicago, I'll be in St. Louis for the next several years working through grad school at WashU. Its going great and I love the city, but I'm looking to meet people outside of my program - which brings me to okcupid!

Making the most of each day - life is too short to sweat the small stuff.

Exercising - just by doing the things that you love. For me, that could be: gymnastics, breakdancing, yoga, jogging in Forest park, or...

Dancing - solo, close, or classes, I love to move :)

Learning for the sake of learning - I'm in grad school for cancer research, and I love it; 'work' never feels like work, and I am driven by the desire leave the world a better place than how you came into it.

trying new things; I'm an extrovert that enjoys new situations - throw me and I usually float :)

I also love learning new ways to dance, and I'm never afraid to be the only one dancing - someone has to start it off, right??

I have been told that I'm a happy soul, that I have my shit together, that I look like I do gymnastics (lol), that I'm ALWAYS hungry, and that I'm a funny, perceptive guy - woot!

Current favorite movies:
Minority Report, Shawshank Redemption, Silverlining's Playbook, 500 Days of Summer, Zero Dark Thirty, Matrix, Truman Show, How to Train your Dragon, Lord of the Rings trilogy

Current favorite artists:
Cults, Two Door Cinema Club, Calvin Harris, Miike Snow, Coldplay, XX, Florence, Bastille, Jane Doze, 5&aDime, Wale, The Weeknd, Of Monsters and Men, Santigold, Foster the People, and anything on Hypem.com

Recently read books:
Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, The Passage, The Talisman / Black House, Science-y stuff:
--> I love reading on chill days - lounging around with a good book is definitely an enjoyable time.

Favorite shows (I don't watch too much TV, but when I do):
Daily Show / Colbert Report, The News Room, Walking Dead, Rachel Maddow (!), Mad Men

Food: Sushi, Pizza, Thai, Italian, Mexican - this list could go on, but I'm limiting myself to 5 :)

The internet
Friends
My Family
Yoga/breakdancing/exercise
A smartphone
A job that gives me a sense of purpose :)

just about everything, and I love talking about it all. :)

I love hitting the city with friends on the weekends - we usually start at a bar, and hopefully end at the place where we can dance!

I once had friends suggest a TV show, which would consist of 'giving Michael a topic and listening to where it ends up.' They jokingly suggested 'paper' as a topic, which actually reminded me of a story that I wanted to share:

--> There was a crazy story in the news several years ago, in which scientists exploring the rainforest came across a rather unique tree - the way Oceanographers find a new species of fish every time the travel to the bottom of the ocean - so these scientists took some tree samples for analysis.
--> Chemical samples can be tested against genetic libraries of diseases - different cancer cell lines, bacteria, parasites, ect. - to check for the novel ability to fight a disease; the majority of drugs that we use come from nature, so this type of screening usually leads to new discoveries. To their amazement, this tree sample was a potent tumor-surpressor! The scientists went back to collect more samples, to determine what compound was killing cancer cells so effectively! ...only they couldn't find that same tree, because the entire section of rainforest had been wiped clean - cut down to make paper.

SAD! But stuff like that is fun to talk about - you can learn so much from the successes or mistakes of others. I love discussing random shit with people because you never know when might learn something new, or grow a little more as a person.

you want test this whole '% match' thing!

I think that a lot of the okcupid questions too narrowly place us into a defined category (even with the option to 'explain' our answers) - so I don't put much weight behind the % match number...even though it can still be fun to compare answers :)