Ehron Wright:  

Although Daniel Crowell was convinced I would give him a job when I was rich and famous, I've got a long way to go for the first and the second is doubtful. After leaving Delta Jct. the summer after 8th grade and moving to Washington State, I repeated the 8th grade so I would no longer be a full year younger than everyone else in the class. Went from 75 students in Alaska to 338 in Washington. I got bored in high school, and finished as class salutatorian. Applied to Cal Tech, Harvey Mudd and MIT for college, interviewed with the latter two. Knew I might have trouble when the MIT interview started with "With SAT scores like this why didn't you get a 4.0 in high school". Harvey Mudd guy basically guaranteed I would get in, then didn't promote me to the admissions board when he saw I had applied to the other two schools, told me he figured I would get into one of them and be better off. Needless to say I got into none of the three. Applied to Seattle University at the last minute, went there for 1 year and managed a whopping 1.83 GPA. Something about going to the computer lab until 7 am and then sleeping through classes, only going in on quiz and test days. Doesn't give you a real good shot on exams when you have no idea what material they're covering. Went to a community college for two semesters, was working part-time construction during summers when I got fed up and decided I had to do something that would force me to stop lying around. Joined the Navy nuclear power program, and spent 12 years at prototypes and on fast attack submarines out of Pearl Harbor. Got m...Expand for more