Where I've Studied

These are schools where I've studied and taught over the years. In cases where I have more information, like yearbooks, I hope to make secondary pages. However, right now I'm not even sure of those years.

• Unknown school (kindergarten) (1960-1) -- All I can remember about this one is that it was long and flat, like a ranch-style house and was somewhere in the same direction but farther from my home than Rolling Hills.
• Rolling Hills Elementary School (1961-2) -- Main memory is bad meat. Actually, probably just mixed with some kind of filler like soy beans. Was an enormous churchlike building with some wooden temporary buildings, and I'm pretty sure it was gone the last time I passed by.
• Welchester Elementary School (1962-8) -- Another ranch-syle school, and I also remember having classes in some temporary buildings there. Big soccer field where I was at least allowed to join in.
• Gertrude Wheeler Bell Junior High School (1968-71) -- Surprised how little I remember of this place where I probably had my first exposure to computers. Main thing I remember was the big hill behind the school...
• Golden Senior High School (1971-4)
• University of Northern Colorado (Frontiers of Science, 1973?) -- Special summer program. My main contribution was getting injured--twice. Fell off a mountain and tried to go through a glass door.
• Rice University (1974-78) -- This is where I became a pretty good sociologist, historian, and even a bit of a philosopher. I remain grateful.
• Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot, San Diego (1975) -- Brainwashing mostly failed. Funniest memory is being inspected for graduation. The general said I needed to work on my position of attention, which is probably the very first thing they tried to teach us.
• University of Texas (Austin) (1978-1982) -- Here they failed to make me a demographer, an emminent sociologist (one of my evaluators officially estimated a 1/3 chance when I was admitted), or a mathematician (though the very great Professor Greenwood did his best in the only course I managed to take from him). They sort of gave me recognition as a computer scientist, though I feel I learned most of the basics before I arrived there and learned most of the substance afterwards. Not much gratitude.
• Austin Community College (1988) -- Typical community college, I guess. I took a conversational Japanese class there. I think it was a night class in a big high school.
• Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages (Kanda Gaigo Gakuin) (1990-3) -- My first real stint on the other side. I mostly worked in the OA program, which was never as good as I'd have liked. However, I think I arrived while the English program was still very strong, though fading. I left before things got bad in a massive curriculum reform project, and I think it was overall not such a good thing, though my sources are teachers who were mostly negatively impacted.
• Temple University Japan (1992?) -- Just a course in history of the English language. Not even sure which campus it was, though they seem to move every three or four years.
• Japanese campus of some minor American college (1992?) -- Can't even remember the name, or if it was before or after Temple. This was a classic example of the fad of Japanese campuses of minor American schools. Not exactly a scam, but of limited academic credibility and most of them disappeared fairly quickly. The idea was to get rich Japanese students to enroll at the home campus after a couple of years of intensive English in Japan. I was actually taking an English teachers certification class, which was pretty good and taught by a former RSA instructor. The school itself must not have been so good, because it soon joined the vanished.
• Yamanashi University (Yamanashi Daigaku) (1993-4) -- Japanese students are very good at collectively studying for exams. Interesting to watch, though I wasn't able to participate effectively on my own behalf. The result was I took the entrance exam for the master's program twice, and didn't come close to passing.
• Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics (Tokyo Kougei Daigaku) (1995-9) -- Very minor private university and I think they're destined to remain as such. For some reason it reminds me of the University of Denver where I think some high school debate tournaments were held...