College Tips ?
That would be 15% like everybody else, wouldn't it ?
I was very fortunate in College
I improved my golf game.
My baseball.
My bowling.
My basketball.
Bridge
Very Much Bridge
Sometimes had a hard time believing the high quality of the bridge players.
Especially in Law School.
Didn't play Poker much.
Golf ... I got really good at golf. Broke par a couple of times.
Baseball ... coulda shoulda been somebody.
.692 in intercollegiate intersquad games ... Hello?
Basketball ... EXCELLENT AA League Intermural ... 20 points plus a game ... EXCELLENT
Never even played in high school
Dick Vermeil wanted me to go out as as a wide receiver in football in high school .. but I didn't want to, believe in getting "hurt."
Don't Remember Free Throws
I improved in Chess
I improved in not revealing secrets that were nobody's business, relative to things I was doing with my girlfriend who became my wife. The 1st One
I have always enjoyed getting better at things and over the years got fairly good at it.
Except the wife thing.
I could really take TESTS .. no sweat.
I did have a problem attending class.
And .. I didn't give a damn about anybody else. It was not my responsibility to help educate the other folks in the room, except my roommates. It was my responsibility to somehow get through this thing and get out of here ... to play baseball, golf, go bowling ... let's see ... was it around this time that I at first rejected "pot"
The food was LOUSY in the first year.
We had food fights.
And burnings.
It was exactly what we wanted in the second.
Lots of pudding.
I had a philosophy professor who was VERY GOOD at PHILOSOPHY and GOLF ... 3 handicap .. OUTSTANDING
I had a Graduate Instructor in Philosophy who submitted the proposition that EVERYBODY understood the notion that BURNING BABIES was EVIL, NASTY, Not SoCô¿ôL, etc. ... on the very day that 7,000 people were throwing rocks and bricks and sticks and things through the window of the Administration building for the campus administration having allowed Dow Chemical on campus. Dow Chemical, who manufacturered Napalm, then being used in Viet Nam to burn and kill babies. I was the only one in the class who had the GONADS to disagree with him, based on that evidence ... he still gave me an A
Very Generous
Not Like My Humanities Instructor .. who's name really was Fink
I didn't take a lot of English and never, absolutely never, totally avoided any notion of taking anything that anything to do with ... public speaking.