At the end of his time at high school, Green was given several stern lectures by his history teacher, Raoul Meyer – who perhaps not coincidentally now writes the history syllabus on CrashCourse. He chided Green for showing up late for class and reading the books but never writing the papers on time. Green said Meyer told him, ‘You think this is cool but actually it is you wasting an opportunity that almost no one gets. And people don’t think you are cool, they think you are embarrassing.’ Green did get his act together and graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio (a liberal-arts college affiliated with the Episcopal church), in 2000 with a double major in English and religion focusing on Islamic studies. He spent almost seven months as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital in Chicago with the aim of going to the University of Chicago divinity school.