Charles Yeager MIS senior

MIS senior, Marine, defends Arizona sun, Detroit factory workers, amphibious gills

WILDCAT: Where are you from?

YEAGER: Detroit, Michigan.

WILDCAT: Really? And you chose Arizona why?

YEAGER: The tuition and the weather.

WILDCAT: You like the heat?

YEAGER: Yeah, when compared to the snow.

WILDCAT: Yes, that would make sense. So have you ever been to a car-making factory in Detroit?

YEAGER: Yes I have.

WILDCAT: What's it like in there?

YEAGER: Busy, people working, conveyor belts.

WILDCAT: Do the people smell in there? I imagine they smell, but correct me if I'm wrong.

YEAGER: Nah, they don't really smell.

WILDCAT: Good to know. If you had the option of either being able to go underwater for 10 minutes at a time or being able to go underwater for as long as you want but have visible gills, which would you choose?

YEAGER: I'd choose going underwater for as long as I want with visible gills.

WILDCAT: Really? So you're the amphibious type?

YEAGER: Yeah.

WILDCAT: Why?

YEAGER: Just to have that ability to be under water. There's so much we haven't seen, just the beauty down there. I mean, if the world is making fun of your gills, you just go under water.

WILDCAT: However, you would also be a social outcast under water because all the fish would be like, "Look at that fish that looks like a human ÷ freak!" Really it's a no win situation.

YEAGER: Hmm.

WILDCAT: Eh, who cares what fish think, anyway?

YEAGER: Exactly.

WILDCAT: What are you going to do when you graduate?

YEAGER: Actually I'm in the Marine Corps ,so I have to go back out to the fleet.

WILDCAT: Oh, I see. That explains the whole fish thing.