Monte Mader

And so we had very strict dress codes.

We had very strict lights out.

You would actually get detention if you were caught listening to secular music of any kind.

And so getting to Liberty and I could listen to whatever music I wanted is where my roommate showed me Tupac and it changed my life.

I could, I could in large part, Liberty has a dress code, but it's not super strict.

It's, it's more along the lines of like, you can't wear PJs to class, but you can wear jeans and a t-shirt and you can wear flip-flops.

And I was just like, this is great.

And, um,

Two years in, because I had lived in boarding school for so long, someone I went to boarding school with was friends with the provost of the college.

So I was able to appeal to the provost to move off campus my second year, the end of my second year.

So then I was off campus and I could just kind of do whatever I wanted.

And I had my own car and I was just like, this is great.

This is compared to where I had come from.

It felt really a lot more relaxed.

And it wasn't necessarily that the teachings were liberal.

The teachers teachings were very in line with what I had grown up with.

But I was getting this opportunity to talk to other people who were not in the same belief system as I was and who came from one of my best friends was from New York.

And so it was this you have this new kind of access to information and these new thought points.

I had never been exposed to other opinions ever before.

And so that was really what was changing for me.