What I like to do.

Interests

Hobbies

Art -- I like drawing and painting, and I have some of my work up on the web now.
Languages -- I have a hobby of trying to learn languages in my spare time. On top of my more formal training in German, French, and Arabic (Plus some Spanish--which will lead to my first best seller "All the Spanish I Need to Know I Learned on Sesame Street"), through the years, I've picked up little bits of Italian, Hungarian, Latin, Greek, Chinese, Cantonese, Basque, Telegu, and several others I can't quite remember. Last summer I learned some Finnish, which I was moderately conversant in before I went to Finland last summer ('99).
I know I do other stuff, but I haven't come up with a good "hobby" label for most of them yet. As I come up with good labels for things, I'll add them to this list.

Music -- I play the string bass and the piano--the former more seriously than the latter. I was first chair bass in my high school orchestra. I consider myself pretty good. I now have a page devoted to my various musical activities.
Crew -- My freshman year at MIT I joined the crew team. Crew is one of those things that grows on you. In my very first race, I rowed in the 5th novice boat. In the second race, the 4th, that spring, I was in the 3rd novice boat, then my first two years of varsity I rowed in the 2nd boat, also known as JV. This year, I rowed in the first varsity boat for the Head of the Charles.
UROP -- I started out with this UROP my freshman year working on a speech error database. Now I'm working on prosodic boundaries
MITAAH -- I used to be the secretary of this group--MIT Atheists, Agnostics, and Humanists (the name pretty well sums up my religious oppinions), and you can read about the stuff we do on the web page.

February 4, 2000