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- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
- Close Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
- Old-Fashioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
- Fellow Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020