About
Scott Gorlin is currently deep in the trenches of a Ph.D. program in systems neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When not surrounded by neurons or hacking together analysis code, he enjoys playing guitar, learning Chinese, and writing in the third person.
One of Scott’s favorite quotes describes the reason he emigrated from his hometown and wound up on the east coast. “The coldest winter of my life,” wrote Samuel Clemens, “was the summer I spent in San Francisco.” Scott narrowly escaped high school in Marin County, California, after specializing in video production, and landed in the heart of Boston as an undergraduate. He commenced from Boston University in 2005 with a degree in Biology and just enough Latin to make him feel important.
A man of few words, Scott prefers to describe himself with irony and wit rather than honesty. In such light, his favorite word is sciolist, or, “one who engages in a pretentious display of trivial knowledge.” The most likely book for him to reference at the dinner table is Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven, and the greatest work of fiction he’s actually finished is John Irving’s The World According to Garp. Additionally, he often enjoys fast food literature selections from Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Anton Chekhov.
Scott currently lives in Boston with his girlfriend Angela, whom he still cannot beat at table football.