This sounds just terrible to say but I just didn't pay my professors that much attention. [Laughs]
I remember being in a math class
and the professor wasn't a really great professor,
he wasn't, and I didn't get math.
Math was really hard for me.
This was the math--. At that time none of the courses had been changed to account for liberal arts students.
They were what engineering got, what architects got, so they were tough,
and I just kind of visited, you know, looked in and smiled. I think I was the only girl in that section.
But when it came to the test I remember bursting into tears and the professor was just mortified.
He said, "Miss Sterling, why are you crying?"
and I said, "Because I can't bullshit my way through it." [Laughs]
Which I could in English or these other things. I could write wonderful things that said nothing;
couldn't do it in math. Took it in summer school and made an A because I had it every single day for three hours a day.