My attitude towards life is like a Venn diagram of improv comedy, cooking, and CrossFit. I love learning and dislike school. I aspire to make every week story-worthy.

I'm making the most of the freedom of grad school, as I get ready to enter the "real world" in a few months. So far it's led me to make movies of fluorescent bacterial colonies, help teach a course about science and cooking, write an article about cocktails, and bake lots of cookies in the name of science. Outside of lab, I enjoy CrossFit, cocktails, coffee, and conversation.

My friends say I'm good at finding connections between people I know: designers, teachers, a hospitality consultant, ed tech company founders, chefs, physicists, microbiologists, a cookbook buyer, a candy maker, and many others.

Books: Bossypants, Kitchen Confidential, Dirt Candy, Confessions of a Public Speaker, Blah Blah Blah, The $100 Startup, and The Four Hour Chef.

Movies: The Social Network, Office Space, and anything by Christopher Nolan.

Shows: 30 Rock, No Reservations, and Kitchen Nightmares.

Music: could range from Mashup Germany to '90s alternative to the Deftones.

Food: Cocktails, raw oysters, sushi, steak tartare, Brussels sprouts, peanut butter, avocado, and dark chocolate.

(besides the standard friends, family, water, etc., these are things I would rather not do without):
1. minimalist running shoes
2. FitBit
3. iPod nano
4. Moleskine notebook
5. cortados
6. messenger bag

how to combine improv comedy and project management into a career, how Bacillus subtilis bacteria differentiate in response to extracellular conditions, how to diversify my musical tastes...

drinking beer with labmates, cooking dinner with flatmates, sipping cocktails with friends, or some variation on that theme.

I was a vegetarian from sophomore year in college until last Fall. Feel free to ask if you want to know more.

you think thugkitchen.com is amazing, you work at a standing desk, or you enjoy improv comedy. Even if none of those apply, I love talking with interesting people who are passionate about what they do.