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This sounds just terrible to say but I just didn't pay my professors that much attention. [Laughs]

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I remember being in a math class

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and the professor wasn't a really great professor,

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he wasn't, and I didn't get math.

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Math was really hard for me.

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This was the math--. At that time none of the courses had been changed to account for liberal arts students.

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They were what engineering got, what architects got, so they were tough,

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and I just kind of visited, you know, looked in and smiled. I think I was the only girl in that section.

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But when it came to the test I remember bursting into tears and the professor was just mortified.

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He said, "Miss Sterling, why are you crying?"

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and I said, "Because I can't bullshit my way through it." [Laughs]

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Which I could in English or these other things. I could write wonderful things that said nothing;

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couldn't do it in math. Took it in summer school and made an A because I had it every single day for three hours a day.