In the Library_(0)
In the Library? (An absolutely true story) In 1964, I was 17 and a freshman at Illinois Institute of Technology. I was not doing particularly well in my studies even though I had graduated top of my class from a technical high school in Chicago. As I remember, I had three major problems: 1) I was a commuter student. One and one half hours on the bus and “L” (rapid transit) each way, from home to school. Classes from 900 to 1800 left little time to study or sleep. 2) Chicago’s college preparatory high schools (an all boys high school at that!) left me ill prepared to handle the mathematical rigors needed in engineering school.3) Last and probably foremost was my obsession with sex. When my brain was on sex the amount of learning that …