>> I think my Pomona experience was really benefited by having a diverse group
of people expressing, you know, very unique opinions and often things
that I didn't necessarily agree with but it really taught me from an early age to kind
of be tolerant and be understanding and kind of open my mind to different perspectives.
And, you know, I think that's something that when you go to a different place and you're old
like me and you're focused in like a very narrow lane, you don't have the opportunity to engage
in that kind of thinking, especially outside of your sort of normal field.
And I missed that.
Coming back to campus, it's nice to see and you walk by people
and you hear them really talking deeply about issues that probably aren't going
to be what they end up doing with their life but you can still take the time to really think
about it and gain some perspective from it.
So I think that's what the Pomona experience meant to me.