Sounds like an INTJ to me; I've known INTJs that don't deal with change well but they still manage to do it when it is needed. What are some of his interests? Do you find him creative? Is he very traditional, meaning that he carries his families rules and traditions with him?
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I don't know, I never paid close enough attention to tell if he works with gaps of information! Sorry 
I do have emails that we have sent back and forth, I don't know if this will help or if you can analyze someone's writing style for MBTI type (I also feel like a big weirdo posting this online, hopefully he never finds it, but here goes!):
[Talking about grading papers for a class he TA's]
About grading: the issue is trying to assign points fairly when they don't get the right answer, or make a mistake, or don't show their work etc. But if I can read their writing, and they are clear, it is easy to determine if their work is correct and, if not, where their mistake lies. That's the beauty of a subject like this...there really is only one correct answer and, while there are multiple ways by which to reach it, it is also usually easy to separate correct from incorrect. However, when they're wrong, I feel like I don't have enough experience to be entirely fair, or to know how many points to give and for what. For instance, you usually see similar mistakes when people mess up, but some people document the rest of their work better and, while they still get the wrong answer, they at least demonstrate that they understand some other skill involved in solving the problem. And then some people fuck up so badly that you feel bad for them... I feel like I'm determining people's fates with my pen, haha. But I should get over it...I think it makes me too easy of a grader.
[Replying to me talking about a course I took senior yr]:
Haha, don't worry about getting too "out there", I have taken a few classes like that too. I took a couple classes from this professor (he was somewhat crazy, spoke using made-up words sometimes, took mushrooms, and spent half of each year in a tiny village in Sierra Leone). His classes were about whiteness and otherness, Modernity, the "violence" involved in reduction and categorization into Modernity, and I could go on and on. He liked me, and I did really well in those classes (I took them during my first and second quarter at UW...they were full of seniors who ate that shit up, while I was quiet but wrote my papers with my own vocabulary of made-up words). He had a funny way of grading, which perhaps I should adopt...if he liked your paper, he would give you an infinity. But, among the people I asked, I was the only one to ever get a "quantum" (which I assume is even more impressive than an infinity). I didn't have the will to inform him that "quantum" really means "discreet" (in the sciences, at least. Not colloquially I guess) and thus is not really comparable to "infinity". The whole basis of quantum physics is that you cannot continually divide energies...a quanta is the smallest bit of energy that you can have...haha.
Is this far too nerdy for an ISTJ...?
I do have emails that we have sent back and forth, I don't know if this will help or if you can analyze someone's writing style for MBTI type (I also feel like a big weirdo posting this online, hopefully he never finds it, but here goes!):
[Talking about grading papers for a class he TA's]
About grading: the issue is trying to assign points fairly when they don't get the right answer, or make a mistake, or don't show their work etc. But if I can read their writing, and they are clear, it is easy to determine if their work is correct and, if not, where their mistake lies. That's the beauty of a subject like this...there really is only one correct answer and, while there are multiple ways by which to reach it, it is also usually easy to separate correct from incorrect. However, when they're wrong, I feel like I don't have enough experience to be entirely fair, or to know how many points to give and for what. For instance, you usually see similar mistakes when people mess up, but some people document the rest of their work better and, while they still get the wrong answer, they at least demonstrate that they understand some other skill involved in solving the problem. And then some people fuck up so badly that you feel bad for them... I feel like I'm determining people's fates with my pen, haha. But I should get over it...I think it makes me too easy of a grader.
[Replying to me talking about a course I took senior yr]:
Haha, don't worry about getting too "out there", I have taken a few classes like that too. I took a couple classes from this professor (he was somewhat crazy, spoke using made-up words sometimes, took mushrooms, and spent half of each year in a tiny village in Sierra Leone). His classes were about whiteness and otherness, Modernity, the "violence" involved in reduction and categorization into Modernity, and I could go on and on. He liked me, and I did really well in those classes (I took them during my first and second quarter at UW...they were full of seniors who ate that shit up, while I was quiet but wrote my papers with my own vocabulary of made-up words). He had a funny way of grading, which perhaps I should adopt...if he liked your paper, he would give you an infinity. But, among the people I asked, I was the only one to ever get a "quantum" (which I assume is even more impressive than an infinity). I didn't have the will to inform him that "quantum" really means "discreet" (in the sciences, at least. Not colloquially I guess) and thus is not really comparable to "infinity". The whole basis of quantum physics is that you cannot continually divide energies...a quanta is the smallest bit of energy that you can have...haha.
Is this far too nerdy for an ISTJ...?
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