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I went to Oberlin College, and they don’t have a film major, but they do have what’s called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn’t have a film major; they do have a film minor. But I pieced together a major that included all the film courses, a lot of computer science, oddly enough, and a lot of theater stuff, and some literature. And then my spring semester of my junior year, I went off to NYU film school as a visiting student—they have a program for kids from other schools to come in for a semester. You sort of take the core curriculum of the Tisch undergraduate film program. So all that combined, I was able to convince the committee at Oberlin that it was a coherent major. [Laughs.] And the name of the major was actually “Film Theory And Technology.” To be totally candid, it was really born out of a panic attack the summer between my sophomore and junior years, when I realized I wasn’t going to graduate in four years unless I somehow managed to glue together all the courses I’d taken. [Laughs.] That said, I’m really glad I did it, ’cause it was really fun, and I was able to just take whatever the hell I wanted.

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