Vika Krieger

And like, definitely the questioning started then and continued well into my 20s.

And so then what does that period of questioning look like?

Yeah, I mean, college again was like this interesting time.

I went to Yale, which was like a total mindfuck for me, being this cloistered Orthodox Jewish boy who went to only Orthodox Jewish schools, basically only knew Orthodox Jewish people, all of a sudden to a college campus where I was like,

You know, and in my community, highbrow secular reading was People magazine.

People didn't have like the New Yorker.

Oh, hell no.

I never heard of the New Yorker until I went to college.

But that's so weird.

Stars just like us.

That was my favorite part of People Magazine.

Like the highbrow families had Newsweek.

Okay.

But yeah, it was just like not a very intellectual milieu.

And so like anything that I learned was like books that I had read on my own.

And...

Then I went to college and it was so embarrassing because there were so many words that I had never heard said out loud.

And so like I'd only read them and I'd be in seminars with kids who went to like Exeter and Tote and, you know, all these like fancy prep schools.

And I would like mispronounce words all the time and people would always laugh at me.

Totally.