This short reminiscence was written by James Griesemer and e-published for the Paul K. Feyerabend Centennial 1924–2024 (the 100th anniversary of his birth) in a grouping of personal memoirs provided by those who worked with or were influenced by Feyerabend. It recounts Griesemer's encounters with Feyerabend as a freshman at UC Berkeley in his philosophy class on ‘theory of knowledge’ around the time that Against Method was being written. Griesemer concludes by noting that he learned from this experience that taking a contrarian position to received views or common knowledge about science is both philosophically important and highly entertaining, and that he has since made a career of multi-perspectival contrarianism as a philosopher of biology.