It ended up taking eight years to finish college because I got deployed and went overseas.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.
Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.
Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.
I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
I went to college for four years.
I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.