Educational+experiences

**Monta Loma Elementary School ** //Steve Jobs called Mountain View home as a child // A childhood friend of Steve Jobs recalls that Silicon Valley's quintessential entrepreneur was partly a product of Mountain View, where he attended school and lived until his early teens. On Friday, Mountain View resident Steve Hatt reminisced about a 1965 class photo of Jobs and himself at San Ramon School, a now-closed middle school on San Ramon Avenue, just east of Rengstorff Avenue. Jobs was "motivated and not afraid to try something different," and was a little mischievous and awkward as well, Hatt recalled. He said he counted Jobs as one of a half-dozen close buddies in the Monta Loma neighborhood. Hatt remembers Jobs attending Monta Loma elementary school while living on Mardell Way. Hatt would join Jobs every morning before school at a bus stop at the corner of Alvin and Victory streets. Hatt recalled a science project Jobs created, a spider made from an Erector Set that could move electro-mechanically with flashing lights. He said he had a flashback about that while watching the movie Toy Story, created by Jobs' Pixar, because it featured a similar creation. The Monta Loma neighborhood was a vibrant young neighborhood in the early 1960s, popular with Stanford professors and early Silicon Valley engineers. Hatt said that "everything was engineering" for kids in the neighborhood who could often be found building electrical kits, like crystal set radios, from places like Radio Shack. While Jobs has always been an intelligent and innovative thinker, his youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. In elementary school he was a prankster whose fourth grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school—a proposal his parents declined.

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=22833 **Homestead High School:** http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/what-was-steve-jobss-high-school-gpa-not-40-or-even-30/252828/

After he did enroll in high school, Jobs spent his free time at Hewlett-Packard. It was there that he befriended computer club guru Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was a brilliant computer engineer, and the two developed great respect for one another.

**Reed College** :  //College and travel// Steve Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in 1972. Soon after that, he began to attend Reed College (Portland, Oregon) for a couple of years. He was only officially enrolled for one semester but he stuck around and audited various classes for the remainder of his time there, with equally flexible living arrangements (floor-crashing with a variety of friends as needed & eating erratically at best). Lucky for us that one of the classes he audited taught him about calligraphy. This led the idea of incorporating various possible fonts for word-processing. After leaving college, he worked at Atari, the seminal gaming company that started a new industry. Here he was purportedly assigned to the night shift that he might not offend so many co-workers with his lack of diligence in maintaining his personal hygiene. Not long after this, he and a friend struck out for India to study eastern religions in the summer of 1974.