“I had to defend this thesis to get credit back at school and I did this whole presentation and there were these four blank faces staring at me. I thought oh wow, that didn’t go well… And I walked outside and a professor I took one class with was standing outside and he said, ‘So that didn’t go well, huh? You know why?” I didn’t even know he knew who I was! And he said, ‘Because you’re too creative and you shouldn’t get a Masters in Anthropology.’”