Well, I'm an "E" ... being an E is really cool, and also really weird. You graduate in the middle of the year and a lot of jobs start in September or June, so it's kind of nice because now I have a forced excuse not get a real job for a long time. So I'm planning to get far away from the northeast and go somewhere out west-maybe California. Someplace far and just waitress or whatever, just live for a while, do something very different from Amherst.

What is the best thing you've skipped class for?

To just get stoned and hang out.

What is your favorite kid's television show?

"Sesame Street." I grew up watching it. I grew up in

Hong Kong and we only got two shows, and that

was one of them. But I don't mind watching it now, it's still good. I baby-sat some kids recently and we were watching "Sesame Street" and I was so into it. Usually you baby-sit and see "Teletubbies" and crap like that and it's so bad.

When the war started, some art societies banned the work of American and British artists. What do you think about politics' role in the arts, if it has one at all?

I think that artists are kind of idealists in a way, and I'm someone who is very cynical about politics because it seems like people have to sell their souls before they can get to do anything. Artists are able to express themselves purely, without any kind of limits on what they're trying to say. To me, something like Picasso's "Guernica" is a painting which says everything you need to say about war: it shows all the horror of it in one painting. That's much more powerful to me than senators speaking out. Artists are able to tap into something that's human, so no matter who you are you can be affected by art, no matter what language you speak. I think it's an artist's job to speak out against war if that is what they believe.

What is your favorite place in the world?

I have so many. I don't really have one place to call home because I moved around so much when I was growing up, but probably my favorite place would be the beach. Any really nice beach-white sand, waves, sun-that's my favorite.

If you could pick absolutely anyone to be the next president, who would you pick?

David Byrne from The Talking Heads. He would shake things up for sure. I don't know if it would be a good shaking up, but it would be something-something different.

What should be done in Iraq?

It's a really complicated situation, I'm actually scared to see what might happen next. I feel like America's going to have to stay in Iraq for a really long time to rebuild it. I really think it's very strange, this system of bombing the shit out of people and then being like, "now we're going to give you money and aid." It's a really weird system that I don't agree with it at all. But I guess money should be given to rebuild the city and the primary focus should be fostering people's lives, not destroying them.

What is the scariest thing you have done willingly?

Falling in love.