It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.