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PROFESSOR: I'd say the
most exciting thing for me

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about high school was that I had
the options take these magnet

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classes that were not part
of the standard curriculum,

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but we were still able to
do things like AP tests.

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And so, our teachers would--

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and they'd only be
like a single period,

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so our teachers would
do their own thing.

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And we'd end up being able to
take AP tests without following

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a set curriculum-- without
doing all the homework.

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We would do, for example,
physics experiments and use

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computer simulations,
and they tried

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to basically tie the
different subjects together.

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And so, I guess I'm
kind of referring

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to the whole collection
of magnet teachers

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that put this math, and science,
and computer science thing

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together.

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And that was pretty inspiring.

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I think they didn't
really inspire

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me to do speaker building
directly, because not too

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many people do that.

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But they did sort of put me
in the right frame of mind

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to go start building
things on my own

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and try and understand
how they worked.