I grew up in and around Florence, South Carolina
and before I came to State I went to high school at the science and math school in South Carolina,
so it was kind of a neat transition. I had had two years of living sort of on my own at that point
so it made coming to college a little easier for me. So, yeah, South Carolina for me.
And like Will I'm a fellow out-of-stater,
spent three years here in my youth when my dad was in the Marines but I grew up mostly in Florida.
so from Palm Bay, Florida until I made Raleigh home.
I went to school there where an alumnus sort of ushered me into looking at North Carolina State University.
[It's a large student body. I mean working in student government here-. I think there's something like twenty-six thousand undergraduates.]
[I grew up in a very small town, smaller than that.]
Me too, I did too. I used to joke with the guy who was the mayor in the town I grew up in that more people elected me than elected him, which was true.