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Prior to graduating from U.City, I was told that 75% of the graduates with my grades do not complete college. After hearing that news and upon hearing about Kemper Military School in Boonville, I decided to enroll at Kemper. Of course, many people asked me if it was a reform school, did I get in trouble with the law, and so on. I thought the military training at Kemper was great but scholastically, Kemper left something to be desired. My father was in the barite (oil well drilling mud -barium sulfate) business so I enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. My grades at Kemper were all A's and B's so I no difficulty in getting into School of Mines. However, the easy part was receiving approval from Mines to go there. Once I started there, I realized that engineering was not my cup of tea so, in my sophomore year I quit on the last day I could drop all of my courses without getting the poor grades I earned. I didn't tell my parents I was quitting. |