-: I always wanted to go to UVA, to Virginia.
In middle school, I decided that I wanted to play tennis
at Virginia, and I didn't wanna play tennis
one place and not go to UVA.
I didn't, you know, they had to be the same,
so I ended up walking on to the tennis team,
and that really informed my four years.
I never played, but I was the best cheerleader on the team,
loudest, to the dismay of my teammates at times,
and I, so that was a different,
a different aspect of UVA,
and it kind of informed which classes I could take
and that kind of thing, but I ended up
with a wonderful community and the athletes,
and also did end up taking classes that I wanted to.
Once you're out of college, if you meet a Virginia grad,
you kind of just have this automatic trust
and that person actually had,
they needed a job at a startup,
and they looked on LinkedIn,
and they saw that there was a UVA grad working.
Without even meeting, he put her to the top of the line
for the interview process, so, I mean, she's qualified,
all of that, but there's a lot of people who are qualified,
so that graduate connection is really important.