Austin McChord just donated $50,000,000 to RIT!
OK, what do we share? A world-class-low GPA. McChord's is 2.2. Mine was (as I best remember), 2.08. It took me 14 years from my first class, while in the service stationed in Savannah, Georgia, to graduation in 1975. In addition to my ODU credits, I have a few from American University and Ohio University.
When I started back for the big push to graduate, about 1973, my GPA was 1.55. Not to make excuses, but it was that low as I walked away from a bunch of classes without formally withdrawing. Yep, a bunch of Fs.
My low-GPA graduation was followed by an unremarkable and somewhat ordinary career. No $50,000,000, to ODU.
The Beginning....
When William Least Heat-Moon toured the country many years ago, his steed, if you will, was a van that he named Ghost Dancing. His journey of America was 13,000 miles. His book is Blue Highways, A Journey Into America. My steed will be a Subaru WRX (traded for an XV Crosstrek). My travels will be, what in the past were called, the blue highways of Virginia. Years ago, maps showed secondary roads in blue. Yes, the ones less traveled.
Unremarkable? I think not!
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