I'm pulling in my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

Okay. So later this week, I'm going to be taking my daughter to college. So Rachel, for those

that are fans of the show, Rachel, who for many, many podcasts, I drove her to high school,

is now going to college.

And so I thought in tribute to my daughter going to college, I would talk a little bit about my college years and the things I learned from college.

So I came up with 10 lessons that I learned from college that I think are applicable to design. So I'm going to talk a

little bit about how I learned them in college and then talk about why I think they're

applicable in magic design. So you guys know the routine. Okay, so number one, find your

own crowd. So one of the things that I really enjoyed about college, so when I went to high school,

I went to Orange High School in Pepper Pike, Ohio, it was a small school.

I think I had 180 kids in my graduating class.

So the whole school was, I don't know, 800 some kids maybe.

We had eighth graders in our school in addition, so that's why

if you do the math. Anyway, it was a small school, and I mean, the people I spent time with were the

people that I could spend time with. But when I got to college, one of the things I learned is one of

the cool things about college is you really get to find people that are more like yourself,

you know, that in high school, especially for me, since I had a small high school, you know,

there were less people, uh, like me. But in a college where there's thousands and thousands

of people, it's a lot easier to sort of find your niche. Um, so one of the themes that'll pop up

during today's podcast is one of the big

niches I did when I was on campus was I got involved in our theater troupe.

Stage troupe is the name of Boston University.

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