I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.
Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.
As an undergraduate at Columbia, I went to the engineering school. I had a great deal of training in engineering and mathematics as well as subdiversified training. And then I went to the California Institute of Technology to do my Ph.D. in applied math.
I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years.
I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.
I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.
I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.
I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.