>> A liberal arts degree teaches you not necessarily like what to think.
It teaches you how to think.
How to critically analyze.
I think some of the biggest things that I left Pomona College with, from,
that I learned in the classroom was just learning how
to talk very fluently about differences in privilege.
And how that actually affects our lives.
And how history -- from not just recent history but very, very old history --
affects the way we live our lives today.
The power dynamics that may be happening in relationships.
There's something that's happening on the surface,
but then there's always something happening under the surface.
So I really felt like I understood people a lot more.
Power. Influence.
And relationships.
I definitely left a very strong writer, having gone to a small liberal arts college.
I forged really good friendships and relationships with my professors,
so I wasn't afraid of like professors being these like --
I don't know what I'm trying to say -- but these people who are all-knowing or all-powerful.
They're humans and they want to know the students
and that helped me a lot when I went to graduate school.