My friend Kristy and I took a class on Terrorism at Columbia University taught by groovy professor Stuart Gottlieb (I knew more than a few girls in that class that had a crush on him). Well, I was in his class in the spring semester of 2005. Today, I got an instant message from Kristy with a link that sent me to this photo with the following caption:
Attending Professor Stuart Gottlieb's 'Terrorism and Counterterrorism' class at Columbia University in promotion for 'V for Vendetta', NYC (March 6th 2006)
There is Natalie Portman standing in front of my professor! In some way, that is the story of my life right there. If I just took that class a year later, I would have been sitting 10 feet away from Natalie (albeit, spouting inanities). Yea, I'm usually the dork that sits in the front row with my laptop out to take notes with.
Screw the pedagogy and world class faculty of ivory towers! I attended Columbia and Brown to see celebrities! I was robbed! Instead, all I got was a very drunk and red faced mayor, Buddy Cianci, speak in my urban studies course about the 'revitalization of the water front.'