OFF TO NEW ENGLAND
In September 1995, life moved a bit north when I started college at Harvard University. After waffling between government, English, and visual and environmental studies (their fancy name for their film dvision), I eventually settled on choosing economics as my major. I figured that if I didn't go the TV route with my career, I'd have a major that would be a good fallback. It was a lot of hard work at the big "H." To keep my sanity, I took part in a number of other activities outside of school work. I played keyboards in a production of "Chess." I composed a couple of songs for an original freshman class musical. I did a little one-man show at the coffeehouse of stand-up and original songs like "The Ballad of the Piece of Cake." And I wrote a couple of pieces for Demon Magazine, an alternative comedy student humor magazine.
However, the one organization I really became dedicated to was HRTV, Harvard-Radcliffe Television, a student organization dedicated to producing television shows. In my four years at HRTV, I produced and hosted a game called "Survey Says!," living out one of my life-long dreams...albeit on a campus-wide level. I also produced a sketch comedy show called "TCR" and a sitcom called "The Asylum." While we were at a disadvantage because there weren't any cable hookups on campus, we managed to get a bit of a cult following. I think this underground following helped to foster a care-free attitude amongst ourselves, where we could be a bit experimental and try things a bit off the beaten path. This proved true with the sketch comedy show we did. I don't care what anybody says, I still pride myself on the "Clicky Pen" sketch!
HRTV eventually became my main passion at school and it seemed like my econ classes became my extra-curricular activities. While some people were pulling all-nighters writing papers, I was pulling all-nighters getting an edit done of the latest "Needlessly Dangerous Boy" sketch! By 1999, I graduated with a B.A. degree in economics after making some great friends and giving away a couple of pizza parties away to lucky contestants in the process.
I will say that while it was a very stressful time in my life, I do miss Harvard. What I miss mostly was the diversity of people and the energy of Harvard Square. On one side of the street you'd see some street performers while on the other, you'd see somebody demonstrating against the plight of migrant grape pickers.
In 1999, life moved on again...this time to Los Angeles.
In September 1995, life moved a bit north when I started college at Harvard University. After waffling between government, English, and visual and environmental studies (their fancy name for their film dvision), I eventually settled on choosing economics as my major. I figured that if I didn't go the TV route with my career, I'd have a major that would be a good fallback. It was a lot of hard work at the big "H." To keep my sanity, I took part in a number of other activities outside of school work. I played keyboards in a production of "Chess." I composed a couple of songs for an original freshman class musical. I did a little one-man show at the coffeehouse of stand-up and original songs like "The Ballad of the Piece of Cake." And I wrote a couple of pieces for Demon Magazine, an alternative comedy student humor magazine.
However, the one organization I really became dedicated to was HRTV, Harvard-Radcliffe Television, a student organization dedicated to producing television shows. In my four years at HRTV, I produced and hosted a game called "Survey Says!," living out one of my life-long dreams...albeit on a campus-wide level. I also produced a sketch comedy show called "TCR" and a sitcom called "The Asylum." While we were at a disadvantage because there weren't any cable hookups on campus, we managed to get a bit of a cult following. I think this underground following helped to foster a care-free attitude amongst ourselves, where we could be a bit experimental and try things a bit off the beaten path. This proved true with the sketch comedy show we did. I don't care what anybody says, I still pride myself on the "Clicky Pen" sketch!
HRTV eventually became my main passion at school and it seemed like my econ classes became my extra-curricular activities. While some people were pulling all-nighters writing papers, I was pulling all-nighters getting an edit done of the latest "Needlessly Dangerous Boy" sketch! By 1999, I graduated with a B.A. degree in economics after making some great friends and giving away a couple of pizza parties away to lucky contestants in the process.
I will say that while it was a very stressful time in my life, I do miss Harvard. What I miss mostly was the diversity of people and the energy of Harvard Square. On one side of the street you'd see some street performers while on the other, you'd see somebody demonstrating against the plight of migrant grape pickers.
In 1999, life moved on again...this time to Los Angeles.