[Rick TYler]

I graduated high school and college during the late Pleistocene, so I haven't had to worry about homework for a while.

When I was a senior, though, I was on the Chess Team, the Speech Team, and worked on three plays (acted in two, stage manager in the third). I spent one night a week at the computer lab at Ford Aerospace playing "Star Trek" and learning how computers worked using a Teletype as a terminal. I spent at least one weekend a month out in the desert riding dirt bikes. I also had a steady girlfriend (who I married five years later and is the mother of two members of Team 1294).

My senior GPA was 3.9 and as I remember it, I solved the homework problem by not sleeping. Hope this helps. I had a great time that year. Too bad FIRST didn't exist yet.