I'm a sophomore in college studying English literature and Spanish. I am more and more openminded by the day and love having heavy conversation​s about life, love, literature, history, philosophy, etc., but I also like to chat about random films/tv shows, music, hobbies, different cultures, stuff like that. Most of all I just like making real connections with all different sorts of people.

Looking to chat with people from all over the world - especially Europe and particularly​ the UK, but really anywhere is great, even from my own backyard in the states. I'm looking to really get to know people, not just chat once about how our days were and never speak again, so please only contact me if you really think I'm interesting and would like to have some real conversation​s with me. Other college students would be great, but I don't mind talking to older/younge​r people, either.

I'm a native English speaker and also know conversation​al Spanish. I need lots more practice with the Spanish, though, so please help me! Also interested in some other languages (see list).

Love to read - would go crazy without my books. I do a bit of writing, but not too much because I'm kind of lazy. :) Music is a biggie, too, both listening to it (thank god for my ipod!) and making it (I sing and play the piano). Addicted to coffee, gum, and my computer. My friends are the most important thing in the world to me, and I look forward to making even more on here!

Bach, Hadyn, Brahms, Debussy, Vaughan Williams
Anna Nalick, The Beatles, Coldplay, Dido, The Ditty Bops, Eisley, Evanescence,​ A Fine Frenzy, Frank Sinatra, The Fray, The Goo Goo Dolls, Holly Brook, Joni Mitchell, Josh Groban, Juanes, Maroon 5, Sara Bareilles, Sarah McLachlan, Within Temptation, 3 Doors Down

LOTR trilogy. Pride and Prejudice, both the Jennifer Ehle and Keira Knightley versions. Sense and Sensibility.​ La Vita E Bella. Wit. Atonement. V for Vendetta. Batman: The Dark Knight. Pirates of the Caribbean. Runaway Bride. Love Actually. Harry Potter movies. The Princess Bride.

NCIS, House, The Tudors, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, American Idol, Monk, Psych

Anything by Tolkien, William Nicholson, Jane Austen, George Eliot. Quite a bit of C.S. Lewis. Stephanie Meyer's Twilight books and The Host. Philippa Gregory's Tudor novels, like The Other Boleyn Girl. Jude Morgan's Passion and Indiscretion​. Harry Potter. Nathaniel Hawthorne, especially his short stories. Anything Shakespeare.​ Crime and Punishment, Frankenstein​, Brave New World.
Poetry: 17th-century​ metaphysical​ poets, especially Donne. Younger Romantics (Byron, Shelley, Keats). Tennyson, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot.

"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self - never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousnes​s rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted."​
- George Eliot, in Middlemarch

"To say exactly what you mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean, that's the whole art and joy of words."​
- C. S. Lewis, in Till We Have Faces

"The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion."​
- Shakespeare,​ in A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Gan teanga, gan anam." (No language, no soul.)
- O.R. Melling

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."​
- Dumbledore, in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets