hey y'all! selby (they/he) here, incoming physics phd student arriving at stanford in the beginning of august. i'm calling out to the internet, looking for some other queer folks to live with for the next year :)

a little bit about me: i'm a cornell physics student about to begin my graduate work at stanford in august, doing quantum sensing for dark matter searches at SLAC! i was born in tianjin, china, and spent my teenage years in the chicagoland area. i write creative nonfiction and screenplays, do theater, play d&d, board games, and video games, run, and travel (love planning trips with friends). i also want to pick up piano again while i'm in grad school, and i've been told to go surfing. while i'm fairly independent, i really enjoy meeting new people and going out with my friends from school and work (think bars, clubs, drag shows, comedy, concerts, live theater, karaoke, ren faires... you name it). i have had a variety of living arrangements at college, including living in the gay performing arts dorm, being an RA, living with a group of four guys, and being in a shared apartment floor with three gals and a nonbinary pal. i especially cherish having a physical and emotional safe space that is built and maintained by friends. i love decorating common spaces and organizing social events with & for friends (think fleabag watch party with a living-room staged reading from the script i own), but i'm also happy to chill in a living room and crochet, read, or do work together, which is my favorite way to spend a weeknight.

my preferences for on-campus housing would be the low rise 3b1b units or rains (either 2b1b or 4b2b), but i'm flexible and open to off-campus options as well. i would love to live with other queer/trans housemates so that we can blast ethel cain together (or charli xcx, or lorde, or hozier, or chappell, etc.). i'd like to submit my housing preferences by 5/1, so TIME IS FLEETING! even if you don't think it would be possible for you to live with me, but you'd like to go thrifting together or go to sf together (or go thrifting in sf together), do hit me up! so excited to meet you all :)