Maya

National Taiwan University, Beijing University

University of Maryland - College Park, Attended 1999 - 2003, Class of 2003, Bachelor's Degree, government & politics/IR, a little Chinese on the side

job pursuer -- nonprofit, IR, foundations, help?

Alpha Omicron Pi, the Oreo sub-chapter, Dems, Alpha Beta Gamma honor society, blah blah blah...

traveling, reading, laughing, soccer, attempting dancing and golf -- possibly at the same time, rock climbing, all kinds of food, Bethesda & DC, relaxing, used bookstores, dressing up when the moment's right, mint chocolate, dairy products, paradoxes, exciting debates, comedies, things Mediterranean, history/fiction blends, the ocean, Terps basketball and football!, experiencing/learning new things, somehow increasingly attached to the color green

Bill Buford's Heat, The Girls' Guide to Hunting & Fishing, Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Aloft, Sontag's In America, Winesburg, Ohio, Proust, E=MC^2, Havel's Open Letters, Jane Austen's books, The Vagina Monologues, Anne of Green Gables, Einstein's Dreams, Neruda's works, Bee Season, Midnight's Children, Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families, Gopnik's Paris to the Moon, Harper's, and maybe one of the books I keep buying but haven't read yet!

The Squid & the Whale, The Constant Gardener, Thank You for Smoking, Batman Begins, Notting Hill, Toy Story, Saving Private Ryan, Ocean's 11, Love Actually, Remember the Titans, Erin Brockovich, Blackhawk Down, Men in Black, Amelie, Cinema Paradiso, Good Will Hunting, The Terminal, Mona Lisa Smile, feel good/provacative/cheesy/exciting/silly movies

quite a bit, beyond Counting Crows, Joss Stone, Thievery Corporation, Curtis Stigers, Guster, The Killers, Shakira, Sarah, Sheryl, and Norah, Regina Spektor, The Donnas, BNL, Howie Day, Carla Bruni, Jack Johnson, Damien Rice, Cary Brothers, Cat Power, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, The Postal Service, Wolf Parade, The Shins, The Decemberists, Frou Frou, The Exies, Fighters of Foo, Usher, Live, Lifehouse, Jem, Martina McBride, Brooks & Dunn, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Josh Groban, Sublime, Gin Blossoms, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Better than Ezra, Gilberto Gil, Mr. Getz, Coltrane, Mayra Andrade (okay, so I'm blatantly, self-admittedly biased because of her name), soundtracks; I wish I knew more about music beyond the mainstream

Grey's Anatomy, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Cosby Show, Sex & the City, Will & Grace, travel & food shows to tantalize me about future destinations

Gemini

Independent (stubborn?), a bit goofy somewhere in there. An (ex-boy)friend once called me "friendly, ambitious, and worldly/trendy/cosmopolitan." Does that help? I sound like a snob now -- oy!

Maryland people around the District. People who are bolder than I am to say hi first on this thing. Maryland SOM'ers. :)