You'd think that the host would be really cool,and hanging out with people. He did his reading off the prompt and then he was gone.

You felt kind of famous, going through the places that so many others passed through.

When reading an essay, it's immediately obvious if the student put a lot of thought into it. It should reveal something about the person to know the student better since we often don't meet them.

You just read. Newspapers and magazines and stuff. I was running out of reading material.

You feel like it's not just a guy up there reading copy that people prepared for him to read. That's a good quality and increasingly rare in the television climate of our times. He's something a lot more than just a talking head.

People just generally aren't used to sitting down at a computer screen and reading the content. Screen delivery has come a long way, but it just is not there yet.