sions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop
taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin
dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasn’t all
romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor
in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits
to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town
every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare
Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled
into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to
be priceless later on. 25
A Man with a Goal
In 1973, Robert Friedland went to India. Here, he claimed, he
had finally found the meaning of life. Steve decided to go to India,
After dropping out of college Jobs worked for Atari, cor-
recting glitches in games.
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