@nprofile1q... I loved Neil, got along with Mark just fine, and respected Steve but we had some conflicts. Having all those mustache/beardo men on my committee about singular they pronouns was wild. I also had a "minor" in creative writing and was lucky enough to take a class with David Foster Wallace who taught for a semester at Amherst (where he had graduated from a few years earlier iirc). Hampshire worked out for me (in a way high school never did), but it was a crapshoot if it would.