Having gone to Needham Broughton High School here
very well prepared. It is an excellent high school, it was an excellent high school at that time,
and so my freshman year wasn't a repeat
but it was something that built pretty steadily.
You can look at the transcript. I'm proud of the transcript. I only made two C's.
One of them was in electrical engineering, and I know the professor's name there was Smiley
and during the semester he would give us
difficult tests, but he had a system. The tests were open book
and then what you missed he would let you take it and work right and bring it back and he'd give you half credit,
and you could look at the old quizzes in preparation so a lot of it was not-. It was a difficult subject but you had all that to buoy you up.
So I got into the exam and he comes in and hands-. I don't know whether he had a bad night or what happened
but he handed out this exam and everybody just about died.
I mean we'd never seen this stuff before. [Laughs] When I handed the exam in I knew I had for sure an eight.
I think I ended up getting a forty-seven, which dropped me from an A-minus to a C-plus.
The other one was, I don't remember the teacher's name but it was in English composition.
I thought I had done pretty well in writing and all
but he gave me a C-plus and I wanted a B-minus.
I was an engineering student. So I went in there
and talked to him about maybe a B-minus and he started doing some of this well maybe-and I thought this guy's not an engineer. There's no chance.
So I forgot that. But I had a lot of really good professors.