Reply #3: I was in Jr. High, and about to select a high school.

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I wanted to go to the High School of Performing Arts. My counselor looked at my transcript and said, "You're good in science and math. If you go to Performing Arts, the Russians will get us. You should go to a science school."

I listened to her, went to Brooklyn Tech instead. Tech was a great school, but certainly that changed my path in life. Anyway, I didn't become an engineer, but I did wind up in a dance company.

--IMM