I'm an introvert, but that doesn't mean I don't like or don't relate to people. I'm an introvert in the sense that I'd rather be with a small group of people than a large one, and I need a certain amount of alone time or else I go crazy.

I'm majoring in Physics and Astrophysics and minoring in Math, English, German, and Philosophy. Throw in the fact that I was going to major in Music Education, and that's kind of me in a nutshell.

NOTE : I had a profile on here about a year ago, so if any of this seems familiar, I'm not trying to pull a fast one nor are you hallucinating. I eventually took it down because there wasn't anything forthcoming. Why am I creating another one? Because I had an empty Friday night and OKCupid is good for nothing if not killing time. Also, I'm an eternal optimist.

Going to school for something both highly scientific and highly impractical for getting a "real job." Basically, I intend to stay in academia my whole life. In a more immediate sense, I'm juggling my course load, going to the gym more often, and trying to make my financial aid stretch as far as possible. I steal bits of time from here and there to actually read, and spend time with the people I love when I can. My motto for the semester is "Work harder, play harder.

Anything conceptual, for the most part. Assimilating and synthesizing information is probably my greatest talent.

Depending on your perspective, I'm really good at playing the piano/singing. I'm not a singer as such, I just love to sing. However, I've lost a lot of my musical chops since I've started college. Related to this - I have a pretty good ear for languages/pronunciation - but I tend to be lazy about memorizing vocabulary.

I make really delicious scrambled eggs and muffins. I love to cook and bake, and in general I'm pretty good and getting better with time and practice, but my scrambled eggs and muffins are basically perfect, as far as I'm concerned.

And I'm really good at calming down babies and puppies. True story.

(I'm not really good at being humble. Oh well.)

This is incredibly hard for me to answer. I'm horrible at gaging other people's perceptions of me, in any sense - to the point where I wonder if it's diagnosable. So, I cheated and asked a couple of friends, and got:
Physically : hair, curves, clothes
Personally: Too much variation to give a concise answer.

Books: (it's kind of easier to do authors) Jane Austen, Ursula Le Guinn, Robert Heinlin, Philip K Dick, Frank Herbert, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchet, Shakespeare, Rumi, e.e.cummings, Vonnegut, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Tolkien, JK Rowling, Atwood - and I'm sure I'll put more down as the mood strikes me.

Movies: Moulin Rouge!, When Harry Met Sally, Star Wars, The Princess Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beauty and the Beast, Pride & Prejudice, Philadelphia Story, Little Miss Sunshine, Stardust, Amelie, Paris Je'taime, Das Leben der Anderen, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, The Taming of the Shrew, The Jane Austen Book Club, Legend, V for Vendetta, The Fall, In Bruges, Fantasia, Darjeeling Limited, Lady Jane

Music: Anything from Baroque to Twenty-first century, as long as it's good.

Food: Good vegetarian food. I have a special affection for cheese, carbs, certain vegetables (especially mushrooms), most fruits, and dessert, but honestly I just love anything as long as it's tasty and no animal had to die in order for me to eat it.

Barring necessities of biological life:

Music - I once drove for five hours with no sound system, and I sang the whole way. I just need it.
Books - there are times when I don't have time to read as much as I'd like, but if I could never read a book again I'm sure I'd cry something fierce. Literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, books about physics, biographies, other various non-fiction that are oh-so-interesting, poetry...I love it all.
People - I'm not sentimental enough to say that there's a person on the planet that I could never do without, because at different points in a person's life they learn to do without people - but there are a lot of people whom I love dearly and whom I miss when they're not around, which is often for the vast majority.
Air conditioning - I live in Florida.
Good food - I'm a vegetarian and would be quite the foodie if my budget weren't so constrained. As it is, I make do with what I have.
Sleep - there are times when I can get <4 hours of sleep for the occasional night and be okay, but by and large I need my eight hours a night or I'm somewhat useless.

In a very literal sense, I spend a lot of time thinking about physics. Between classes and homework, that's just how my life is. When I'm not actively engaged, I typically either daydream through various narratives and possible worlds, or I think about my life, mostly in the future tense. I'm kind of like Luke Skywalker in that respect.

Even odds that I'm sitting at home, completely content to do so, or hanging out with my friends somewhere, maybe seeing a movie, maybe chilling at a houka bar. I like dancing, but I just can't bring myself to enjoy clubbing as much as a student in this town probably should.

It's been four years since my last relationship, and that lasted all of three or four months. Part of the cause of this super-long stint in singlehood is that I have a pretty good idea of what I want in a partner, and I don't feel the need to waste time and energy on something that isn't going to go anywhere.

you're slightly insane. If you can enjoy listening to someone discuss physics, practice the piano, and sing throughout the day. If driving out to the middle of nowhere for the sole purpose of stargazing sounds like a good idea. If you can appreciate the fact that chivalry and feminism are not mutually exclusive. If you can deal with being corrected in casual conversation and aren't afraid to participate. If you read for fun.