Coleman Ruiz

And I mean, she's an amazing person.

No, no.

She was just nice and, you know, I didn't really care about the achievement.

It certainly sounds like I care about achievement because of the narrow focus, but...

It wasn't really that, you know, she was just really normal in a group of a lot of abnormal people, frankly.

Like there's some kooks at these schools, you know, and I'm probably in that category.

I don't know.

But everybody's just really different there.

You have this athlete group.

I mean, you know, Andrew, I mean, you went to Stanford.

I mean, some of the.

You know, the group of Naval Academy and West Point, like these schools who produce like the Rhodes Scholar level person, like that cluster of group, like at Navy, I remember they're super impressive.

I mean, and then there's the rest of us like doing our best, getting pretty good grades and stuff.

But there's very different groups inside, you know, the school.

No, we kind of had a friendship first.

i felt like at least we've discussed this i mean i instantaneously enjoyed her company so i met bridget in february of sophomore year i was on the campus of naval academies called the yard i was on the yard all winter because the wrestling season isn't the shittiest time ever right it crosses over the holidays you have to make weight during thanksgiving you have to make weight during christmas we were on campus on the yard

And it was easily waist-deep snow.

And we were doing two-a-day practices.

Everybody else was home on vacation.

That winter, I considered leaving.