I'm a quiet guy. I'm not outgoing or even social, but I'm willing to open up. I spent a lot of my teenage years as a pretty depressive person because of my situation in life, but I'm out of the hole, I'm in school, and life is definitely clearer for me right now than it ever has been. My independence and introversion has left me a little socially "different" so this whole thing is a bit of an attempt to get out of that or maybe just learn to adjust it in some way. I'm fine being by myself, but I do realize there's a void somewhere that I'd like to at least attempt to fill.

"So it goes."

I'm a second-year mechanical engineering student at UC Davis. I'm unsure about what happens after I graduate but I'm considering grad school. I take school seriously and I'd say that learning is one of the most important things I could be doing right now.

Guitar, listening, math.

My height? I'm 6'4" so that's a plausible guess but I don't really know.

Writers: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, Jorge Borges, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre.
Specific works: Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, 1984, Lolita, The Stranger, Being There, Brave New World, Dubliners, The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Metamorphosis, Slaughterhouse Five, The Catcher in the Rye, The Circular Ruins, and of course The Phantom Tollbooth.

Movies: Pi, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Big Lebowski, Office Space, Lost in Translation, Borat.

TV: The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Peep Show, Seinfeld, The Daily Show.

Music genres: progressive rock, indie, latin jazz, fusion, classical (late romantic/20th century), movie soundtracks, shoegaze, doom metal, black metal, death metal, folk/singer-songwriter, hip-hop (very little), electronic (some).
Bands: Opeth, Katatonia, Band of Horses, Enslaved, Jon Redfern, Camel, King Crimson, Ulver, Death, Joy Division, Atheist, Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, Baroness, Testament, Erik Satie, Anathema, Bon Iver, Tenhi, Tom Waits, Ane Brun, Anna Ternheim, Metallica, The Gathering, Red House Painters, Devin Townsend, Dredg...the list goes on and if you're really interested, go ahead and ask me specifically.

Food: I'm not a food enthusiast. I eat and drink to sustain my health. Sometimes that involves cooking, so yes, I can cook when I feel like it (usually French toast or chicken salad sandwiches).

Electric guitar
Acoustic guitar
Computer
Stereo
School
Coffee

Awkward social situations, school, music, PHYSICS, time's infinite expansion in both positive and negative directions, trying to recreate music in my head in a "The Circular Ruins"-esque way (look it up if you're not familiar with the Borges short story).

Hanging out with the roommates with about a 50% chance of drunkenness, 100% chance of eventual boredom.

I was thinking about something specific to write here but paused to think about whether or not I should say it, and now the fact that I had to think about it is definitely convincing me not to.

I seem interesting to you at all. I have to say though that if I saw my own profile as an objective outsider, I'd be unimpressed. (Just an example of my exceedingly dry, not-very-humorous humor.)

Really though, message me if there's anything here on my profile that you like, dislike, or are curious about. I'm quiet but I do respond to gentle (and not-so-gentle) stimuli.