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My name's Collin, and I'm a law student. If there's not a twelve step program for that, there really should be. Don't let it fool you, though. I still have a soul. They don't make you hand those over until at least the second semester of year two. My friends and family are the most important part of my life. I choose to stay in Lansing, MI because everybody in the world I care about is here. As it stands, I'd stay here if I can but I'm not sure I'll be able to, with the way things are. I love music. I play my guitar nearly every day. And, I sing. (Less now than I used to, thanks to the "busy" thing.) I also love dogs. I want to get a great big dog someday when I'm not too busy to walk him. (Or her, whatever.) I'm not the biggest party boy on the planet. I'm more comfortable at home watching a movie than in some loud bar. It's not that I never go out. I do. And I have fun. I've just not one of those "drink till you fall down because it's Tuesday" types. I'm past it. I chose law school because I like helping people with their problems. I thought briefly of being a counselor because you are able to help people through the roughest times of their lives. Lawyers get to do that too. Make no mistake, when people come to a lawyer with a problem, it can be severely and personally distressing to them. A counselor would talk to them it that situation. Make them feel better. Lawyers get to talk to them, make them feel better, and then go and kick the ass of whoever was hurting them. Make them cry through their wallet. That's a lot more me.

Figuring out the next step. I go to class and I work at a small law firm out of East Lansing. Obviously, I'm going to end up doing something law related. Though, I'm hesitant to do anything with it that isn't going to allow me to have a personal life. You know those lawyers who hate their lives and wish they'd never went to law school? The ones with lonely wives and kids who don't recognize them? That's not going to be me.

Playing guitar. Singing. Earning the trust and affection of children and dogs. In the business world, I'm also a sharp negotiator. I can be their worst nightmare if they try to pull one over on me. I'm also a good and, I hope, loyal friend.

I'm sharp and very direct. I'm not at all shy about letting people know exactly what I think. My boss of five years once told me "I always keep an ear to the floor with the others in the office in case someone's messing jerking them around and I have to step in. You, I don't worry about because I know you're tenacious enough that you can take care of it." The trouble is, it has the effect, I think, of making people think I am insensitive. I'm really not. The fact that I'm not is, I hope, the second thing they notice about me. Though, I do have a talent for saying the wrong thing at times. (Sorry Ann)

Food, shelter, oxygen? My guitar really is the only material thing that is absolutely irreplaceable to me. The rest of it can burn. Now, if we're going non-material things.... Music, intellectual stimulation, a sense of purpose, a sense of belonging, hope.

What that next step is.

Hanging out at some dive bar with my best friend and his wife, who is also my friend.

I have a very deep, private, personal difficulty that I will admit to for this question: I find it very difficult to make private admissions on the internet.

I'm looking for somebody I can connect with. To me, that means finding someone I can't get enough of talking to. If that sounds like something you're into, I'd like to hear from you.