Lakshmi/Hooks

• Science! - Lakshmi is a scientist / engineer, one of the foremost minds in the world when it comes to developing new self-healing plastics and other odd, wonderful, and potentially useful materials. Are you a science-type? She's been published extensively and has a number of patents to her name (or well... Stanford does, thanks to her). Do you have a specific project in mind with an unusual material use case? She may be able to point you in the right direction, if nothing else. (It's more fun than it sounds, I promise!)

• Professor - Currently 'on loan' from Stanford to UC Prospect, Lakshmi teaches a few extremely high level engineering and science classes. If you're in their doctoral program she may have taught you.

• Big drinker - Like... not the fun kind. This typically happens in private, but she'll venture out to bars and such when loneliness hits. Which is often.

• Secret sculptor - She probably won't show you her work (don't get your feelings hurt, she doesn't show /anyone/) but Lakshmi has a deep abiding love for art in many forms, so if you're an artistic type prepare to be fawned over -- particularly if there are darker elements in your work.

• Wake up! - Chasing the next big rush is a thing, for sure. She's not in to hard drugs or anything (at least not yet) and seems to be making a conscious effort to avoid that particular pitfall, but if you want to go skydiving, or check out that weird club down in Mexico, or... whatever really as long as it can be presented as 'new and fun'? Yeah, Lakshmi's probably up for it.