Tavi Machin

Hometown: Houston, TX

Major: Symbolic Systems ; Natural Language (Modern Languages Minor)

Position: Chickarees

Three things I love to do: lay on a patch of grass with dappled light and a light breeze; learn how to ice-skate; walk aimlessly around a little town till I find something interesting.

I could talk all day about: Well-Constructed power/magic systems in books or series, why bread is ironically one of the best things ever, and the fun there is to finding an isolated quiet place.

I would love to connect with guests about: Humanities, Linguistics, or Anthropology

Biosketch: HELLOo0o0Oo0OO0! Tavi is thrilled to have yet another summer to speak in the third person. It's a magical experience really, I've become a little author for my own person. Anywho, to get a feel for this guy's trajectory in life: he was born in Cuba, raised in Houston, did track for a coupe years, convinced himself he knew how to draw, raised a litter of puppies, floated down a river, was in awe of really big scenes, really really really wished he had magical powers of some sort, and has a really niche desire to be one of those people that can look at a flower and be like "oh yeah that's just the petrahyelious cardensia" (fake name). To go onto some more applicable things, he's after taking a bunch of STEM classes, he's realized he had so much more fun with the language/ humanities courses he took, which let him to look to linguistics and things in that area. But anyways, he's getting into crocheting and wants to expand the repertoire of languages that he knows so far -- which currently include English, Spanish, Italian, and ASL -- at varying levels haha.