-: The favorite thing that I like to do
I get to do it and I get compensated for it.
I've always been an avid reader
and I like reading and taking in new information.
And I like sharing it.
And typically you don't get to share it in conversation
because people aren't really interested.
But in a course you get to explore it,
you get people to react to it.
You get people to kind of go oh,
well I never thought about that.
Where have you read that?
Can you prove that?
I love it when people say can you prove that?
'Cause usually I can and then that creates a dialog
so something that I would be doing for free
I'm actually getting paid for it.
I graduated from here a year early, went to graduate school
and then I was a prof.
And it took me a while to digest that
because five years earlier I had been a dropout
and no one really asked me anything about that
but I had had two back to back family tragedies
and I shut down.
And since I was in a private high school
with rigid academic standards,
when I wasn't producing they kicked me out
and I went from Catholic school to public school
but I was still in this depression.
And so I decided to stop going
and I spent six to nine months
just going from playground to playground
shooting baskets all day.
But at the end of that time
I decided, well, I think I better go back to school
and I came back and I knew I could do the work
but I really didn't take it seriously.
It was kinda like I'll do this so I can play basketball.
And then I found myself in college playing basketball
and it was like well I'll do the work
but I'm really here to play basketball
and I do track in the spring and I'm having a great time.
And then I went to graduate school
and all the sudden everything got serious.
And then someone kicked me in the pants
and sent me to the front of the room and I was the prof.