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I went to Arizona State, where Lawrence Krauss worked (still works?) and graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor of science.
I was kind of an ambitious student I guess. I did a lot of clubs. I took more credits than I needed. I reached out to professors with questions. I think one time I just emailed Lawrence Krauss out of the blue, asking him if I could come to his office and ask him questions about space. For me, I had no other reason than I thought it would be fun to talk to a brilliant scientist who was a part of that whole atheist movement I grew up with.
Anyway, to my surprise, his assistant said I could come and I visited at the scheduled time and had to wait in a waiting room and everything. I ended up in his office completely clueless as to what to ask him or what to say. I think I was really nervous and said some dumb shit about black holes. Somehow, after the experience, I asked if he wanted to meet again at a coffee shop. Again to my surprise, he accepted. The only thing I remember about that second conversation was that he called my degree (economics) dumb, and then seemed embarrassed that he said something so impolite.
In hindsight, I cannot figure out why he gave me any attention at all, especially considering I provided no compelling premise for our meeting and I was a nobody. I am almost suspicious of it all. My best guess is he wanted to be open to public outreach but was too autistic to realize that interacting with a single undergraduate for no provided reason is not an efficient way to do public outreach.
