G Scott Alamanach Mikalauskis

Greater Chicago Area United States

Graduate Student

Government / Military

About me: I'm a generalist, but a serious one. For starters, I have degrees in Humanities and Engineering, a very rare combination. As a result, my intellectual life is a very rich one-- I am as comfortable discussing mideval Hindu love poetry as I am doing vector calculus. Those sort of things have their place, and I enjoy them, but I recognize that they are different from people skills. I travel a lot, and usually on my own. I go to places like Cambodia and Kuwait and Zanzibar and India. I have lived for short periods of time in Kenya and Thailand. I was in Bogota, Colombia, when Pablo Escobar was running loose, it was the kidnap capital of the world, and a radio station down the st...