-: So I did both my undergrad and graduate school here
and my undergraduate experience, it just, frankly,
opened my eyes to a much wider world
than I was familiar with previously.
I grew up on Long Island in New York;
not a backwater by any stretch of the imagination
but coming here just exposed me to so much broader a range
of people, in particular, students and faculty.
And then obviously just the learning experience.
Particularly in graduate school,
I just felt like it was such a privilege to have access
to all these classes and all this knowledge, frankly,
and it really transformed me.