I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.
I had gone to school to study marine biology.
I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
I went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College.
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.