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What I know now that I wish I'd known then: "Travel as much as you can. It's good to see how other people live and see what their world is like. The world gets less remote, more real, when you travel. Washington became a part of me while I was there. I wasn't a tourist, I was someone who lived four blocks from The White House and jogged with friends every night down to the Lincoln Memorial. I saw Native Americans protesting outside of the Department of the Interior. One day I walked by Henry Kissinger in front of The White House while some people were protesting against the war across the street. I wasn't getting that view back home."

Student opinion: "He is 'oh captain, my captain.' If he were to ask me to rip a page out of a textbook, I would trust him completely and do it," said Vincent Hennerty, 19, anthropology.

Nineteen-year-old nursing major Ivan Zhou said, "His goal is not that you accomplish the work, it is that you take something away from the class. He shares first to get everyone to be interactive. He makes us feel safe by making us laugh."

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