-: Everybody you met was smart, you know?
So at the beginning, that was intimidating.
But it became just, you know, everyday life,
and it became this, you know font of learning opportunities.
So you had your classes with your professors
and that was great, and they were all great,
but your classmates, you know, had had all sorts
of experiences and knew all sorts of things
and were interested in ideas.
I can remember my first year in the dorm,
just staying up all night talking about things,
philosophy or politics, or whatever.
We probably didn't know what we were talking about,
but it was just like a party to be in the middle
of people who wanted to do that
and were smart and could do it.
And that really kinda lit a fuse in my head
that's been going ever since.
So I just got into the habit of learning.
You know, when I walked into this room,
I just started looking around at it,
like, oh, those architectural features on the fireplace,
now where did they come from?
And that's the habit I developed here.
And it's been great.