You, Delaney, are going to change the world.” “We all want you to spend as much time as possible focusing on your research. He gave me that indulgent smile he always produced when I behave in a way he doesn’t expect. “A Teaching Assistant? I teach three classes and they’re all intro courses, do I need a TA?” “I come bearing good news.” At my wary glance, he raked a hand through blonde hair shot through with silver. His smile brightened and he took a step inside, casting a short glance over his shoulder that told me he wasn’t alone. I turned from the view of the quad to see Dr.
Austin had insisted I teach a few classes to get me over my public speaking difficulties. But I learned a long time ago not to wish for things that were out of my reach. So I left with Ryan Austin, President of the university fourteen years ago and I never looked back. Mom and Dad had turned Harvard, Yale and Princeton away because they couldn’t leave their jobs, and they were reluctant to move my older siblings away from home. So when the people from Stanford came along, I knew it was my chance to belong, at least to my intellectual equals. All the different ways to remind me I was outside the norm. I knew more than all of the teachers in the small school I attended in my even smaller Texas town, which made me a freak. By the time I turned ten I could do advance level physics and trigonometry. I know that sounds strange to most people-they always feel it necessary to tell me so-but it was all I knew. Stanford has been my home since thirteen weeks before my twelfth birthday. Another person in here and we’d be on top of each other. Although as small as it was, I don’t think the decision had been more functional than charitable. And I didn’t have to share it, so I guess there were two things.
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