To make this a little more fun, I've decided to list some things that I'd normally put in the "The Most Private Thing I'm Willing to Admit" section. Not quite a "self-summary", but hopefully it'll prevent your eyes from glazing over:

- I am enamored with Elizabeth Warren...like, tween-love-for-Bieber enamored. I don't know why. It's a little weird.
- I love my family very much. I spend much of my weekends in RI visiting them.
- I have a slight addiction to Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I eat it dry.
- I'll read and watch anything that has a vampire in it.
- I wear a watch on my right wrist, only because no one told me it's apparently meant for your left wrist.
- The idea of making two trips from the car to the apartment makes me cringe.
- Under "Religion" I was going to put Four Burgers, but that wasn't in the drop down menu.
- I have a dumb phone. I'm actually on this site to find someone with an iPhone, so that I can carry on a love affair with Siri.
- I sometimes hum softly to myself when I'm not paying attention.
- When I'm watching a movie, particularly a scary one, I let out yelps and sometimes exclaim "oh no!"

I graduated from graduate school (which when you say out loud kind of sounds like the scene in Austin Powers where he says "allow myself to introduce...myself") a little over 2 years ago. I was down in Atlanta getting an MS in mechanical engineering, with a focus on sustainable energy technology development. I'm now working at a research and development company designing, building and testing laser-based sensors. Not quite what I went to school for, but I hope to pursue projects within my company that will be more sustainable-energy related in the coming years.

Outside of work I love to find new ways to be lazy. Some (most) guys on here list the requisite "I also like to climb mountains on the weekends", whereas I enjoy organizing my pocket change and watching prerecorded evening news broadcasts. I'm always trying to get outside for a run when the weather permits, and out onto the slopes in the winter. Hopefully I'll get onto the beach a lot more this summer. I'm also a fan of Bikram yoga, but my nonexistent trust fund forces me to scope out deals to local studios, limiting my ability to regularly attend classes.

-forgetting people's names
-parallel parking
-working with my hands in a MacGyver-like way with whatever's around me to get things to "just work"
-watching crappy TV
-popping my ears without need for gum (it's one of my only innate skills)

I say "wicked" a bit more than I should.

I have to go on the record here: do people really place much importance on this section? I mean, aren't we all influenced by our peers when it comes to the next book you're going to read, or the next show or movie you're going to watch, or food you're going to try? My theory: there isn't much in this section that will indicate dating compatibility...perhaps just some conversation fodder. However, I'll go ahead and list my favorites. Just promise me you won't *not* email me if you happen to have an Alanis aversion.

Books: The Time Traveler's Wife, The Historian, The Ax, the Harry Potter series, Admission, Sum, the Hunger Games trilogy, Wool: An Omnibus.

Movies: Contact, Sunshine, Once, the LTR Trilogy, Forgotten, Labyrinth

Shows: West Wing, Meet the Press, Downton Abbey, True Blood, The Killing

Music: Top 40 (Adele, Britney, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, etc), lesser-known "prime time show soundtrack"-y stuff (Andrew Belle), Lilith Fair fare (Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette, Chantal Kreviazuk, Sarah McLachlan), cool people music (Kaskade, Basement Jaxx), and John Denver (what?).

Food: pizza, lasagna (and anything with tomato sauce), mac & cheese, reubens, Pinkberry, Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

In no particular order:
- my family
- my car (or any car...I just like being mobile)
- an Apple product of some kind
- a piano
- music that makes me sing like I own it
- NPR

Current events; politics; my professional goals (i.e. trying to save the world just a little bit through science); eating healthy; why I should be in bed but I'm not; my two nephews.

Out with my friends in Boston, or driving down to RI to spend weekend time with my family.

I look like a homeless person when I try to grow a beard.

(FYI, I give serious points to people who take this question seriously and give more than a stock answer)

You should message me if you don't smoke, don't drink excessively, you actively think about your health, and you laughed at any point while reading this.