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Reed College, the quirky university where Apple’s founder learnt to 'think different', has a reputation for eccentricity and excess. Worryingly, it also has its own nuclear reactor…
When Steve Jobs, the genius behind the Apple computer company, died last month, an inspirational speech he once gave to students at Stanford University became an internet sensation. In the address – watched more than 14 million times by visitors to YouTube – the man who put the “i” into hi-tech reflected on his life, his personal philosophy and the people who’d helped him achieve his dreams.
One of his most formative experiences, he said, was the time he spent at the private American university Reed College. Jobs never actually graduated from Reed, leaving after only six months – but he then stayed at the college, sleeping on friends’ floors for the next year and a half, dropping into classes that took his fancy. The one that really captured his imagination was a course in calligraphy.
“If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class,” he said. “And personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do [today].” If you want further evidence of the profound impact the university, a campus on 116 acres of rain-soaked farmland in Portland, Oregon, had on Jobs, just ask his son — a young man who goes by the name of Reed.
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