College can be an exciting place full of interesting classes, parties and lifetime friends. But Kolby Granville, a third-year law student, has taken it to the next level; he's currently in his 11th year at ASU.
Granville isn't just a law student. He has already obtained his bachelor's degree in secondary education and master's in educational technology, all while being a part of student government and attending those aforementioned parties.
Granville, 32, has finally come to his last semester here at ASU, after years spent falling asleep at famous global landmarks, nearly capturing death on film, and embracing the nerd within.
SPM: Don't I know you?
Granville: [It's] very possible you would. I have been a full-time student at ASU for 11 years. I think I started in '92, so statistically I have had a class with everyone at this point.
SPM: Have you ever heard of sleep?
Granville: I sleep a lot actually; it's my superpower, that's the joke. I'm a travel junkie, [and] I really feel that you really don't know a place until you have napped there. I have slept on the Great Wall of China, in front of the Vatican, in the Redwoods [National Park in California].
SPM: What's the craziest place you have napped?
Granville: Italy. I fell asleep on the grass basically across [from] the equivalent of the White House.
SPM: Have you ever seen the movie "Van Wilder"?
Granville: Someone made me watch that ... You know the funny quote he says, "You know my motto: stay in school"? [It] means something totally different to him. ... If someone could pay me to stay in school forever, I could think of 10 different degrees I would get.
SPM: So, shouldn't you be broke by now?
Granville: I was actually lucky - I came to ASU on a scholarship for archery. For my master's, I worked for a company that gave me a scholarship, and the law school offered me a great deal.
SPM: What has been your favorite experience at ASU?
Granville: My second semester in Manzy, my suitemate knocked on my door and was like, "Dude, I've been doing [beer shots]; come take my photo." ... So I go stumbling into his room, and he says, "I'm out on the windowsill. I want to have all of Tempe in front of me." He had cut the frame on his window out. So [I thought], "Now I am going to have photographic proof of this kid falling to his death."
SPM: Did he take a swan dive?
Granville: [No, but it] was the dumbest thing I [had] ever done in my life.
Reach the reporter: megan.salisbury@asu.edu.
