Guess what, I've changed since I wrote this profile. So I'm going to cross out things that are now incorrect, and put in corrections in red. Just because. Melike (pronounced meh-lee-keh, it's Turkish)

October 3, 1985

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I was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and moved to California with my family when I was 7. I went back to Turkey when I was 9 and came back when I was 10, and I've been here ever since. We still go to Turkey every summer, though.
I was a cute kid when I was little. I used to draw all the time and talk to myself. I still talk to myself. I used to be really really funny. I was also a nerd in school. I loved school.
I started piano when I was 3.5; however, by middle school I was pretty fed up with it and quit. I started again, three years later, when I was fifteen, and am still at it too lazy to practice on my own now. I was also in choir all through middle school and high school and college... and life. If you think choir is for dorks you're completely wrong. But I'm not gonna get into all that here.
Right now I'm a junior at MIT. So far my plans are to double major in biological-chemical engineering and music.
Um, I guess I'll write more in here as I go through life. Haha.

I reeeally really like savoring food. I'm not too picky an eater. In fact, I'm not picky at all. I just don't eat pork. I don't exercise much but I'm not fat. I could feed pigeons all day and never get bored. I make weird noises when I'm bored. I'm obsessed with J. S. Bach. Well, not obsessed at the level of worshipping posters of him, but I go wild when I hear (and play) his music. The man was a genius, what can I say. I also like Eric Whitacre's choral stuff, and I've met him in person. I like the Turkish culture. Oh yeah and I have a lot of clothes and usually don't wear any outfit twice. It's against my policies. Everything always matches. My walls are covered with magazine ads. I guess I like clutter... and taping stuff.
My dream is to be a successful scientist and composer (both at the same time!) and live in a wonderful house I have no dreams, goals, nor motivations for my life, but I'm sure life will be great as long as I can find a great husband (of course). I also want fame. I want to have a lab in my basement don't like laboratories, but I'd still like to and raise and train an army of pigeons in my back yard. I want to live in a little house in a fisherman's village in Istanbul large city, preferably with a lot of space to store all the stuff I never throw away. I also want a gray cat with blue eyes. I don't like children, but when I do have kids I will give them Turkish names that sound good to the foreign ear.
I like weird guys, and sometimes loud ones. I prefer guy friends to girls. Girls suck most of the time. I always look around me and pick out good things I like about random people. My mom thinks I'm weird because we'll be shopping and I'll tell her, "That girl has really nice hair.. I like the way that guy is dressed." It's fun. I bet if they knew that someone thought that about them, it'd make their day.
I love introducing my friends to the songs I like, because most of the time they're so obscure or random. I like promoting my favorite Turkish musicians to my American friends.
Sometimes I get mad at myself when I'm proud of myself because I can't be fake and make myself look happy when I should like something I'm not, but and usually people admire me for it. I tend to blurt out what I'm thinking, but not when it's extremely rude. I'm a bad liar. Sometimes I'm so honest that people think I'm lying. I'm a pretty mild tempered person. People don't apologize enough, but I compensate for them. I'd rather watch people than interact with them.
I have a pretty addictive personality. I get obsessed with things sometimes, like crushes, a certain book, a certain band, computer games, TV shows, my website, and any old thing I like. It's mostly harmless, except I'm pretty addicted to chatting and I wish I wouldn't do it so much because it's not too fun after you do it for hours on end.
I'm a really good student, but if I studied I'd be better. I don't really know how to study. It's a skill I need to work on. I'm a lazy procrastinator, but I can't do without school or some kind of work. In that sense I'm a walking oxymoron. Maybe I derive pleasure from making work wait? No, I don't think that's it.
I've heard from people that they thought I looked inapproachable when they first saw me. I don't really know why. Maybe I need to smile more. I admire a lot of people for just being themselves, but am pretty modest myself.
I keep a Turkish journal and write my thoughts in it sometimes. I laugh a lot of small things that are barely funny (easily amused). Sometimes I laugh so hard that I cry. This happens several times a week. :)
I can't find anything else to say. I've discovered my personality is different when I think/write in Turkish, so I guess you'll have to miss out on the other half of my personality. Just kidding.

I like a wide range of music, including: Renaissance, Baroque, techno, some alternative, some Turkish pop/rock (Vega, Sebnem Ferah, Teoman), Debussy, Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Steve Reich, and other random stuff.

That's it for now.