I certainly learned how to break down a text at Princeton, which helps me break down a script - or at least that's the line I feed my parents when they start wondering where all that good money went.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.
I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.
I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
I wasn't that academic, but I always made sure I was earning money. I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. Even when I started doing music, my parents were like, 'You need to work; you can't just live off music.' I always knew that. So I worked until I knew I was going to be financially okay.
I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.