-: Being exposed to these, you know,
to these great thinkers,
I had some great advisors,
I got involved in some really amazing projects,
met lots of different people.
I'm from the New York area and
the story I tell is when I went down
to visit Virginia and it was 35 years ago or so
and it was in March or April,
whenever you get your acceptance letters,
and My dad was with me and it was one of those
great spring days in Charlottesville,
and everyone was outside
on the lawn,
in the amphitheaters, walking around.
I couldn't ask for a better day,
and my father looked at me and said,
"If you don't go here, I'm going here."
(laughs)
So, it's just a great place to be
and it was new for me.
I have an older brother and sister,
and my older brother went to Princeton,
and my sister went to Amherst,
so, a medium-sized Ivy League school
and a small liberal arts school in Virginia
is sort of on the larger size school
and that's kind of what I wanted.
It's kind of what I thought I wanted and
then when I got there you're like,
"Oh my God, this is fantastic."