| 50 freaking years ago, on May 25th and marching to Pomp and Circumstance, I graduated from Lejeune High School on the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. I wouldn’t be attending our 50th reunion in July even if I wasn’t going to be on a riverboat cruising from Budapest to Regensburg. |
45 years ago, on May 9th, I received my undergraduate degree from East Carolina University in Mathematics with a Computer Science Option. Computers were so new then, there wasn’t yet a separate Computer Science major. I immediately moved to Raleigh to begin my 42-year career working mostly for technology companies. |
I remember it so clearly. That May 19th morning 45 years ago, when I turned off the Research Triangle Park‘s Alexander Boulevard and into the IBM entrance thinking. “I have arrived.” Never in a million years did I think that I’d work for such a prestigious (at the time) company. |
Enjoy the cruise. I wonβt be going to the reunion either but I was thinking about it..
Thanks, Patrick. And thanks for reading and commenting!
I like the “(at the time)” part!
Thanks. Had to qualify it!