#BearsOfBaylor — “I started as a jazz bass player, in New York”

“I started as a jazz bass player, in New York, and so I had this idea that I wanted to make money and eat, so I entered the very lucrative English profession. … I’m starting my 5th year of the English Ph.D. program, which is weird to realize now, to say out loud, but yeah, that’s where I am…

“I’m from New Jersey, so I never wanted to come down to Texas, ever. It was not on my map; it was on my anti-map, because I don’t like it when it gets above 80 degrees. But when I looked into it, I thought it looked great. … I really appreciated [Baylor’s] attempt to combine Christian scholarship and Christian thought with serious academics and deliberate aggressiveness of that push. I thought it was really great to be a part of something like that.”

[Every Baylor Bear has a story; #BearsOfBaylor brings those stories to you, one by one. These stories, these people… This is our Baylor.]