Rob poses with his show stopper—the Malayan Flying Fox—the same species he had startled Jennifer Love Hewitt with on The Ellen Degeneres Show. His advice to recent graduates echoes his own


experience. He wanted to pusue law but became one of the country’s most visible spokespersons for an under-loved, misunderstood creature. “College is an amazing opportunity to learn things you


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don’t know and to try out things you never could,” Mies says. “But when I got out of college, there was no job I was interested in. Now, you could spend the rest of your life at a job you’re barely interested in, or just keep your eyes open and be willing to take a big jump.”3


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