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1. What is/was your favorite thing about college?
2. If you could get an advanced degree in any subject, what would it be?
3. Have you ever considered piracy?

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1. What is/was your favorite thing about college?
More than anything, I loved the feeling of freedom. I was living away from home, paying for my own education, and expanding my horizons in ways that had never really occurred to me. I loved my classes and my professors. I came out as gay and I was in a really safe place to do that. I stayed up all night studying and talking literature, smoked too much, drank too much, and still managed to pull off a 4.0 average and work 20 hours a week.

I'd say college was just about the first time I'd felt really free and alive, in a lot of ways.

2. If you could get an advanced degree in any subject, what would it be?
Wow, that's a tough one. It's hard to say. My first thought was something to do with animal medicine, but I really don't want to go to vet school. I might say animal behaviorism instead, because I'm so good at working with special needs animals.

I know from experience that I don't want an advanced degree in English (I went back to grad school for a year and found it a lot less rewarding than being an undergrad because my classmates were all "Graduate School is Serious Business!" and I was all, "You're at the University of Maine, get over yourselves!"

3. Have you ever considered piracy?
Only as a great fantasy. I'm still looking for a Pirate Queen to come and shanghai me and hold me hostage all night on her boat. :-)