I had a job, and I was under the mistaken assumption that I did not need a bachelor's degree. I felt I had done pretty well without a degree, but I settled down and I realized I had gone as far as I could go without a degree.

It had been something I'd been aching for a while.

I got a 3.95 (grade-point average).

The hairy assumption is that people want to do this, and that they're going to do a good job. There is some value to me if I use it myself; if you used it and I cared what you thought, it would be substantially more valuable for me.

We're not hitting on all cylinders like we were last year. But if I'm not mistaken, there were periods last year when we struggled also. I still feel we're going to be OK. I just want it to happen now, not later.

One thing that he said was the assumption that a sniper was a single person could not be further from the truth,