"I had the friendliest, most constructive conversation, and it was the greatest moment of my life," Garczynski said. "I stepped out of the theater that night knowing that I wanted to do [comedy]. That might be a little bit of a romantic view, but I keep looking back at that moment. To me that was a good omen, and it convinced me that I'd like to do this."
Last term, Garczynski interned at College Humor, and his work has also been featured on McSweeney's Internet Tendency.
Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor for The New Yorker, personally wrote a piece on the magazine's blog on Garczynski's piece "If Paintings Were New Yorker Cartoons."
"I was extremely giddy for that because I had this vague fantasy where someone at the New Yorker saw that article and they did, and it was the cartoon editor whose work I really admire," Garczynski said.
Garczynski wants to continue pursuing a career in comedy and can't see himself doing anything else.
"Any job I could get would be great," he said. "I just want to be writing, maybe even performing."
Garczynski is declaring a film and media studies major modified with English, but also plans to study humor theory and practice.
"I want to be on the fast track to doing this all day," he said.
Garczynski is the editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine. He joined the staff during his freshman winter and assumed leadership a year later.
"I've always been a fan of comedy and I've always held comedians and humorists in really high regard," he said. "In terms of me actually doing it, I didn't really know at first. Then McSweeney's happened and convinced me again that I should be doing this. It's just these little victories that keep me going."
As for what's next, Garczynski said he is in the early stages of co-founding Sketch Team Dartmouth, Dartmouth's first sketch comedy group, along with Charlie Laud '14 and Drew Zwetchkenbaum '16.
Garczynski is a former member of The Dartmouth staff. Laud is a reporter for The Dartmouth.
