jesse is originally from the pacific northwest, having lived on a small island in the middle of the puget sound . he swam to the university of chicago where he somehow received a ba/ma in linguistics . he quickly left to further torture the left side of his brain at the universiteit van amsterdam for a msc in logic from the institute for logic, language and computation . during this time, he was able to find a gap in the space time continuum and work for liina pylkkanen as the lab manager for the neurolinguistics lab at nyu .
he is also a pisces when feeling up to it.