Theater and Baseball

Introduction
I chose Brown mainly because I play baseball here and they recruited me to play/ But also, the curriculum - it’s open, wide open, and they have an incredible theatre program.

Business/econ is a good time. A lot of math, a lot of theory, and I’ve never been a good writer so I did the Econ trail. I don’t know what else to say. If you want to go work in New York or Wall Street it’s the place to be. But my main focus isn’t econ, it’s really it’s the theatre arts.

Theater arts is just a great program, the professors are—they’re just so passionate about what they do they’re craft, they love it. The group of people. Right when I got into it, I just learned so much about myself, learned who I wanted to be and the talent is just incredible here the competition’s stiff. And I was fortunate enough to get into a few plays where I learned just so much working with the directors. Night in, Night out really hands-on stuff. The classes are just discussions, the work, the rehearsals everything is—if you want to be an actor, it’s all you can ask for. It is a big major here. A lot of people do it. It’s very well-known for it’s theatre. So Brown-U. Go Theatre. Yeah, football, basketball, baseball, everything. Water polo, lacrosse, nice, it’s good livin’.

Campus Life and Social Life
I guess you can tell, I’m not really interested Econ, but it’s something to fall back on if the acting thing doesn’t work out.

It just depends on how much work you put on yourself really, you can get away with doing not a whole lot but me being the stellar student that I am, I put a lot of time into it, I really do. I focus on things.

You know, the professors understand. If you’re an athlete they understand you know, you have time that has to be consumed in Athletics and they put that in perspective when you’re missing classes.

There are a few classes that are: Dance. I’m in a dance class, that’s attendance, you got to get there. And the theatre classes are all mandatory attendance, but I mean, it’s good to go to class. It really is. Some of the professors would like you to go to class a little more often than you do, I guess, but you don’t have to go everyday, you don’t have to go everyday. Sections are big. You go to sections. Do your homework, go to the sections and go to classes when you can.

Oh, I wouldn’t know anything about that, except that they’re great. Freshman/Sophomore years are more party-esque than Junior/Senior just because you’re turning 21, you go to more bars and downtown and stuff, but it’s a great way of meeting people it’s a way to learn a lot about yourself.

The Frats are good, good Frats, good sororities, good dancing going on. It’s a good life. Brown’s known for it’s party life. Rock On.

The Ladies. The ladies, the ladies are good, the ladies are smart, the ladies are beautiful. The Ladies are ladylike. There’s a diversity. Anything you can handle, anything you want from Buffalo to Switzerland. From Canada to Honolulu. They’re there, they’re all around.

And they’re great, you always run into different people who have different outlooks on life and you just learn so much and you have great conversations. Great conversations, it’s a lot different from high school. Just diverse.

I would have to say maybe 50/50. I think the first few years it’s a lot more hooking up just because people have boyfriends and girlfriends in high school, and still have them so their cheating on their boyfriends and girlfriends in high school and hooking up. But then they realize they can’t do the long distance relationship and they maybe Junior/Senior year start getting in more relationships in school. 50/50 I would say, that’s my personal experience.

As far as how easy it would be if both of them wanted to do it. Fairly easily, I mean, Freshmen have roommates and everything, but sexile action is very well-known. Yeah hooking up’s fun and fairly easy to do if you really want to do it.

No I’m not going to say the people. I’m going to be honest. My favorite thing about Brown is the theatre program. I’m harping on this theatre thing but it’s my most interesting thing to do. It’s the most I guess important thing in my life. I look forward to the classes, I look forward to the people in the program. It’s just a good spirit all around. If you’re into acting, it’s a great place to be, meet a lot of people who know a lot of people, who know a lot of things. Academics
Least favorite thing? The Weather. The Providence weather . It can get a little gooey at times. It’s beautiful in the fall and it’s beautiful in the late spring. I guess that goes with the North East in general. I guess I’m not a North East guy. I like the beach and the sun and the seagulls and blue waves and happiness, and peace and longevity and rainbows.

Student Body
I get a lot of phone calls from my mom and dad hoping that I’m not changing my ways into this liberated, John Kerry Fanatic who loves homosexuality and all this. But I don’t know it’s pretty liberal, you know, people are not Republicans up here, if you know what I mean. As a Republican, I’ve opened up a lot, you know, I’m not a George Bush Fanatic. Not to say I ever was, but I mean I understand a lot of things people don’t like about him and I understand a lot of things that people do like about John Kerry. It’s just a good thing about the school. People can have their own opinion on things and they can fight for it and they do fight for it.

Spring Weekend, huge, just a grand old time. Dave Binder comes, he’s the Jimmy Buffett of college. He just spends his life watching college students get hammered and rock out to his music, it’s a great time. In the Fall, the College Hill kick-off. Just a bunch of bands come and play.

Well, you have a unit, a freshman unit, which is great. You meet all of them you have a meeting I think the first night we got here we had a big meeting. You meet everybody, you play games. Even people who have no personalities have friends.

In Closing...
I came into Brown thinking I was going to see a lot of Steve Urkels, but not, it was totally different. People are smart but it’s not the whole kind of nerdo-feel that you would think. From athletes to computer science majors, people are interesting.

It’s just it’s a different kind of college. Maybe at Princeton or Yale, they get a little more nerdy, but here, it’s just open, it’s just the curriculum, the liberated aura. It’s cool, people are cool, no nerds.

Just coming out of high school you don’t know what to expect going far away. Rhode Island? Where is that? And coming to an Ivy League school, you know, big stuff, big stuff happening. And right away you feel comfortable where you’re at. It’s just a great spirit around here, it really is.

I didn’t know there were cool people here before I came and now I know that it’s the coolest place on earth.