My name is Max, I was wearing black boots when I made an account on Hubski. I came over because kleinbl00 mentioned it somewhere, and I've been a fan of his for a while, so it wasn't a difficult decision to trust his judgment.

I'm 22 and grew up in Moscow and then at around 7 years old moved to Baltimore. School (College) was weird for me. I went around to any of the older classmates and ask them who their favorite professors were and compiled a list. I then met with about 30 of the professors on that list, and based on that interaction, I enrolled in their class. It didn't really matter what they taught, paint drying 101 can be worthwhile if there's an interesting professor. I then found a concentration of these professors in Political Science and so declared that major. Three of my favorite teachers though left at the beginning of a semester. So I found myself in a major I didn't particularly care for without the teachers that drew me to it. I dropped out because I didn't want to do the search for a major again, and I didn't care for the social environment and the campus bubble.

Now I'm living with a couple of Hopkins students, use their J-cards to draw books out of their library (by the way kleinbl00, just finished Ghost Wars by Steve Coll, what a fantastic piece of journalism. You could write a book about the things I'm ignorant of :D I'm onto a Peace to End All Peace, the creation of the Modern Middle East), and waiting to hear back about my AmeriCorps NCCC application. I made the waitlist pool, so there's now a 75% chance that I make it in woohoo! AmeriCorps would send me out somewhere in the states for 10 months to do a bunch of service projects and nearly pay off the one student loan I have. Afterwards? No idea. Probably pick a city with one of my then-recently graduated friends and figure it out. This few month period while I wait for my February 1st deployment (assuming I get in), where I work this silly job that barely pays my rent and not really do anything that's important to me except read and cuddle, it's weird. I don't know what I want to do, but I feel like I should be doing it already. I hear this is typical of someone my age, but that doesn't really comfort me.

On the brighter side, because I'm all about the brighter side, I've been having fun, visiting distant friends, and trying to learn more about #thehumancondition and human nature. Hubski helps in a big way towards that. Thanks guys and gals.