In college Fischer did not put any restraints on who could be his roommates just as long as they were different from him. During his college experience he acted rebellious to some of the assignments or discussions in the classroom. He would write his papers on what interested him and not on the assigned topic or he would argue about minor details.
Throughout college he would take notes on himself. These notes would not mean anything to anyone and he was most likely looking for patterns in himself. He knew that he was different from other people so the things that he did find out about himself were not significant.
Fischer spent most of his time as a sophomore with the graduate students and even taking advanced classes in Social Relations that graduate students would take. One of his closest connections was his sophomore tutor Karl Reisman, a graduate student. Fischer would try to talk the graduate students into trying hallucinogenic drugs as an experiment. When taking these drugs himself he would take notes often to record what he was feeling. He also tried to change his sleep patterns to see what effect this had on his mental state.
By the end of his sophomore year he lost interest in Social Relations and his interests turned to other subjects. In May 1958 Fischer changed his major to physics and on July 12, 1958 he married Tinna.
In October Fischer applied to graduate school at Harvard, his only choice in schools. Scoring a 870 out of 900 on the Graduate Record Exam in Physics Fischer was accepted into Harvard.
A for Hoyt ... but shorter and deeper next time.
ReplyDeleteWhere did you learn to write sentences like that first one? I don't consider it plagiarizing the first sentence of the section ... but I know faculty at SUU who would. The rest of the post is not like that, which is good.
What would be wrong with "He majored in social relations - a major about decision-making in humans - for a while, but left it for the more theoretical physics. High test scores got him into graduate school at Harvard."