ME

Hi, my name is David. I’m 21. I grew up in DeWitt, MI, a small suburb of Lansing. I’m now a college student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I like college.

PREOCCUPATIONS

I have many interests including but not limited to playing the piano , learning, reading, the internets, Moose Tracks ice cream, taking pictures of you when you least expect/desire it, The Beatles, the movie Cool Runnings, following through on promises, smiles, an exquisitely placed comma, those “Hi, I’m a Mac” — “I’m a PC” commercials , Chuck Norris and various other action superstars , the bustle in a middle school right when the bell rings at the end of the day, polo shirts with athletic shorts, pervasive integrity, the sound of a cello, Northern Michigan, art history majors , Google, embracing nerdiness, making to-do lists, Bing Crosby’s “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas”, getting to class ten minutes early so I have time to read the school newspaper, making Excel spreadsheets to optimize various non-essential activities, competition most preferably when coinciding with success, Pat Conroy, endearingly out-of-style cell phones, noogies, mental math, thinking, Skittles and other confectionery, looking up words in a dictionary, asking personal questions, laughing at my awkwardness and that of others, the sun, sunshine, sunspray, sunlight, sunsets, daylight, calling people by their full names (e.g., "Nicholas", "Steven", "Katharine"), PowerPoint presentations, chex mix (thanks mom), Big Ten Burrito, clever prose, true sincerity (i.e., the kind you can’t fake), being hilariously out-of-touch with pop culture, Under Armour, John Rubadeau, keyboard shortcuts, the word “shenanigans,” college campuses, rain when I’m trying to take a nap, Michigan Football, messing up the bed you just made, watching high school football under the lights, Indian summers, Wikipedia, staring contests, etc.

QUOTES AND STUFF

My favorite quotes in the whole world (as opposed to only part of it) are:

“Psst, here’s a secret… Your last mortal thought will be ‘why did I take so many days, just like today — for granted’” — Anonymous (from PostSecret)

“If a martian (who, we’ll imagine never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures—these humans who live about seventy or eighty years, knowing that death is going to come—it would look to him like a terrible problem of pyschology to live under these cirumstances, knowing that life is only temporary. Well, we humans some how figure out how to live despite this problem: we laugh, we joke, we live.” — Richard Feynman

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.” — Plato

THE END

So that’s me.