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4 1 T R E V O R D AY S C H O O L ■ S P R I N G 20 1 7 – 2 0 1 8 is-actually-just-doodling, you name it. I doodled a lot at Trevor. (His senior yearbook doodle, below, parodies them.) Most of the teachers let me get away with it, to which I say, "ank you, teachers." For those who didn't, sorry about all that doodling. Although it's kind of your fault for encouraging me to have a pen. How has your career developed over the years, and what are you are doing now? I am currently living the luxurious, fast-paced, high-powered lifestyle of a cartoonist. I was on track to be a lawyer or a doctor, but I wanted to have a job that made real money. I kid. I was never on track for those things. If you ever see me trying to represent you in court, or attempting to perform open- heart surgery on you, run. All I have ever known is drawing and joking. For a while I didn't realize I was allowed to combine the two. I tried making serious art, but I was as good at that as I am answering questions for alumni magazines. When it became clear that I was, in fact, allowed to make funny drawings, new career options became available. Now that's pretty much all I do, drawing cartoons for the e New Yorker magazine and elsewhere—although people do sometimes insist that my art isn't as funny as I think it is. What are some fond memories of Trevor? I have many fond memories of making fun of Leo Lopez's turtleneck sweaters. He was a great teacher, who made me interested in (and briefly good at) math. He liked me, and worked with me, even though I wasn't a natural math student. e same goes for Blanca Llaurado, who went the distance to help me almost succeed in Spanish, and a bunch of others. I liked that most of the teachers liked me. Even if I didn't excel in their class, they were always down to let me hang around their desk and call them by their first names. I think that aspect of Trevor is important. No matter what kind of student you were, you felt respected. What advice about the workplace, or life ahead, do you have for current Trevor students? As a teenager, I was the least informed I have ever been, but thought I knew the most about everything. Try to do the opposite of that. Also, try not to spend too much time being jealous, or petty, or spiteful toward your fellow students. You are all in the same boat. Some people will be good at things that you won't be and vice versa. Achievement and intelligence are not measured by grades, but instead exist on a multi-faceted, unquantifiable spectrum. For that matter, most aspects of life exist on a multi-faceted, unquantifiable spectrum. Don't worry about where you are on that spectrum; just make good choices and generally try not to be an awful person. Also, it's impossible to keep house- plants alive. Anyone who tells you that they have kept their houseplant alive for more than a month is a liar. Is there anything else that you would like to share? Would it be inappropriate to ask you to follow my Instagram account @Ellisjrosen? at would probably be inappropriate. Forget I brought it up. ■ Ellis Rosen '04 Cartoonist

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