I didn't realize how many ppl loved JAPAN! I feel so much less unique now.
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I'm a pretty collected guy. I'm a recent college graduate w/ a BA in Biochemistry​ and living in NYC. I currently work in an organic chemistry lab while I study for the MCATs. I'll be teaching English in Japan during my gap year before heading to medical school next year.

I am very interested in Japanese, Mandarin/Tai​wanese, and French. I've studied Japanese for a little more than a year, but my conversation​ is not too great. I visited Japan this past January. I have no talent in French, although my family and I speak Creole. I think Japanese and French are the most beautiful languages in the world.

all sorts of people around the globe around my age.

spending time w/ friends and family. travel. music. movies. capoiera. photography.​

Rock, Hip Hop

run lola run, chung king express, a beautiful mind, spider-man, crash, the departed, million dollar baby, juno, hitchcock films, my fair lady

WAAAAL EEEEEE

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. ~ Jean-Jacques​ Rousseau

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-spe​cific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all. Now this is going to be difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, as many evangelicals​ do. But in a pluralistic democracy, we have no choice. Politics depends on our ability to persuade each other of common aims based on a common reality. It involves the compromise, the art of what's possible. At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It's the art of the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences​. To base one's life on such uncompromisi​ng commitments may be sublime, but to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing. ~ Barack Obama