I am studying geology at the University of Pittsburgh. I would like to eventually study Volcanology, because it's cool. Probably not the best reason to study a subject, but certainly not the worst.

Well it depends a great deal on how far away they are. At least one or two people have said that they noticed that I'm always smiling and laughing about something. So I guess it'd probably be my smile, which is something I'm fine with.

I like far too many books, movies, shows, bands, and foods to actually list all of them. I think that's probably the trend as opposed to the reverse though. I guess I can try to give an idea of what I tend to enjoy most.

For books, I read a lot. When I was younger (early teens or so) I read mostly fictional geeky stuff. For example: Tolkein, David Eddings, C.S. Lewis, Heinlein, Asimov, Orson Scott Card, and dozens of much crappier science fiction and fantasy authors (whose names I don't remember I probably would if I reread their works though). When I was in college (the first time), I had a serious crisis of religion and I read a huge amount of philosophy and theology. I tend to enjoy both to this day, although I don't read nearly as much as I used to.

Let's see with movies, I like almost everything. I watch movies that are bad, sometimes because they are bad. For example I've become increasingly fond of MST3K, although sadly I have willingly watched some of the movies they lampoon outside of MST3K. I love watching popcorn movies in theaters, like Transformers (which if you can ignore the plot and the dialogue, and the acting is actually pretty okay). I missed summer movies for a couple summers and really got into watching them after. I also like serious works of art type movies, for example Citizen Kane (which is sadly the standard answer), also things of social or political significance.

For shows, it varies, I tend to be pickier than I am with movies (probably due to the time commitment), but I tend to be picky about weird things. I can watch anything from Sitcoms to serious works and enjoy it, but I don't enjoy all sitcoms or serious works.

I have really diverse musical tastes. When I was younger I used to listen to mostly heavy metal and some punk. Then when I was deployed and listening to music at work I got tired of it and started to spread out more. Like with TV shows I am picky though, I can name songs and artists I like from almost every genre, but I don't like all artists or songs in any genre so I have a wide breadth of styles I listen to, but not as wide breadth of artists.

Well admitting anything private in a public kinda makes it not really a private thing. You'd probably have to ask me to get me to divulge my deeply held secrets.