Claire Danes

I was lonely.

I didn't realize how lonely I was.

So, but yeah, but it turns out like all those... It was unorthodox, but those extracurriculars of like working on those sets kind of amounted to something.

So I was, you know...

That was a choppy initial month.

But once I sort of got my bearings and figured out basically how to write an essay, I realized, oh, I can kind of do this.

And it was just a blast.

I mean, again, it was exhausting and I, yeah.

But wonderful.

And it was so nice to just think like for the sake of it, you know.

And yeah.

Be making friends who I wasn't, I don't know, working with formally, you know.

Yeah, and I, you know, all those cliches turned out to be true.

It's still some of my dearest friends.

And actually, there's a woman named Sarah Treem, whom I'm a writer, who...

It was in my same year.

I didn't really know her during that time, but she's become a really, really close friend.

And she kind of insisted that I go to the, I don't know which anniversary, or they don't call them that, do they?

Reunion.

And I felt like not at all entitled because I didn't have my stamp and my certificate of...