I am a grad student. It's a lifestyle. I am a musician and I like music a lot. Language excites me. I like beautiful things. I love to eat. I like running. I am from the Bay Area.

I'm currently earning my MS in Computer Science from UCSB. I study programming languages and I like theory. After finishing I plan to pursue a PhD.

cooking, I'd like to think. Handwriting. Sending emails. Functional programming. Thinking.

For some reason it seems to be my messenger bag. I got it when I graduated from high school and it has somewhat of a unique color scheme, so frequently people recognize me by it.

Books. 1Q84, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Cat's Cradle, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, How To Solve It

Movies. Ocean's Eleven, Casino Royale, The Italian Job, Stranger Than Fiction, Black Orpheus, Monsters, Inc., WALL-E, Mulan, City of God

Shows. Breaking Bad, How I Met Your Mother, Community, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Get Smart, Phineas and Ferb

Music.
I love EDM. Above & Beyond, Swedish House Mafia, Tiësto
Classical too - Beethoven, John Adams, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Dvořák, Yo-Yo Ma, Rostropovich, Michael Tilson Thomas, Gustavo Duadmel
and jazz - John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery, Vince Guaraldi
Miscellaneously: Radiohead. Two Door Cinema Club, Phoenix, Lana Del Rey (even though she's controversial), Elliott Smith, Stevie Wonder

Food. Indian, Thai. Vegetarian (even though I'm not vegetarian). Mexican. Good hamburgers.

1. The Internet
2. Good food
3. Music
4. Intellectual stimulation
5. Tea
6. Video games

Programming languages. Category theory. Linguistics. Productivity.

Playing video games, listening to music and reading, or watching Netflix.

I am fascinated by raves, and I love going to them. Dance music has brought a huge amount of positivity and happiness to my life since I discovered it some time ago, and although I come pretty firmly from a classical/jazz background I find that I listen to house and trance most of the time nowadays.

you think we might enjoy talking to one another.

or if you have a pokémon tattoo.