Trae (Trey) Stephens

In other cases, it's just a much lower cost version of something that is a great capability that we just don't have the ability to even buy if we wanted to at scale.

I mean, I shoot a fair amount.

I have a clay target range at my house in New Mexico, and I grew up with a hunting dad, so we would shoot in our backyard all the time.

I was impressed.

Much appreciated.

Yeah, I mean, at the time, it was really mysterious.

I genuinely had no idea what was going on.

You know, I feel like growing up, everyone just kind of told me, you can do whatever you want.

You can go to school wherever you want.

Like, you know, sky's the limit.

Go and do whatever it is.

And yeah, I got a bunch of skinny envelopes back in early April my senior year.

And

I was kind of like caught off guard by this reality.

One school that I got into was UNC Chapel Hill, and my high school girlfriend was already committed to going to Elon, which is just right down the street from North Carolina.

So I went over to her house that same day, and I'm like, man, I don't know what happened, but I got rejected everywhere.

I guess the upside of this is that we're going to be going to school close to each other with me being at UNC.

And she was like, yeah, about that.

She broke up with me the same day that I rejected all these colleges.

And so I went home, and I was just weeping on the couch.