Ryan Hanley

Yeah, seriously.

And I didn't have the psychological background.

Like I said, I was a math major.

I cheated my way through college.

Basically, I started as an engineering major because I thought that would be – that was like – so I grew up very poor.

I have this very distinct memory of being 12 in my town, looking around, going, I got to get out of here.

Like, this can't be my life.

It was a shithole.

900 people, one streetlight.

We used to say you could leave the doors open because the criminals lived in our town.

They didn't rob in our town.

And in my little brain, you know, engineering was something that could get me out of this place.

So I go to school for engineering.

I also got a baseball scholarship.

And I got to my second semester of my sophomore year, and I had a 1-2 GPA and hadn't been able to pass a full rack of classes in any of the semesters because engineering was really hard.

Yeah.

And my guidance counselor or whatever the person says, you can either choose baseball or engineering.

And I was like, baseball, drinking, chasing girls, engineering.

So I became a math major.

So you can tell how important academics were to me coming out.