Re: Whiff of McCarthy as pupils out teachers

There's only one thing that counts and that's stubbornness. Never
quit!
If the kids got advantages because of wealth they also got lack of
stamina
in the face of disappointment. ----- Glenn

Andy writes:

No argument there. From time to time I would get discouraged with
the work load and complexity of the courses and I would remind
myself that a LOT of people had done that before me, and some of
them were not very bright, so I better just keep plugging....
It worked.

The four year break between high school and college may make a
couple of subjects a little harder to get back up to speed on, but my
high
school courses were not geared at all to the engineering studies. I
had not developed good study habits, and was rudely shocked at my
own lack of preparadness.... It took about a year and a half for me
to learn what college was all about, academically, but after that
I did pretty well. Five years later when I went back to grad school,
I did very well..... cause by then I had learned that the stuff was
useful in my job, and I studied enthusiasticly and with gusto.......

Regarding taxes paid,,,,, I've paid a hell of a lot more than a
penny....
A large part of that has been distributed to fund education... Not to
mention many thousands of dollars a year in real estate taxes for
the last 40 years..... <G>

I didn't work on campus cause those jobs were taken . I was
engineer
at several radio and TV stations (over a 4 year period), did some DJ
work in radio, and worked a summer as an electrician's helper . (
That's
the dumb ass who has to crawl under the house and avoid the snakes)
Never was any doubt that I would be an electrical engineer. When my
high school classmates were stealing hubcaps, I was stealing drive in
speakers :>))))) Got my First Phone in my freshman college year and
that got me into radio and TV.......

Andy aka W4OAH

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