Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job.
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.
When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school!
I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.
I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
There is never anyone quite so wonderful as the people who were seniors when you were a freshman.
I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'
I didn't get the high school opportunity, but it always worked out.