If there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that doesn't matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.
THOMAS NAGEL
Pittsburgh, PA
I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA and did my undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh. I majored in mechanical engineering and minored in philosophy. After graduating, I spent three years working in the engineering field and further exploring philosophy with the aim of going back to graduate school. While I'm not using much of Pitt's $100k engineering degree these days, it did allow me to fix up this beauty and keep her running well enough (so far...)
Houston, TX
I started my MA degree in philosophy at the University of Houston in the fall of 2022. I'm a teaching assistant there and plan to apply to PhD programs in the fall/winter of 2023. Besides reading and reading (and sometimes reading), I love to play golf--even though I can't break into those sweet 70's--hike, and play tennis, racquetball, or any other pickup sport I can find.