Feynman Case

Hello, my name is Richard Feynman, and I am a Nobel Prize-wining physics professor at Caltech. I was born in 1918 in Far Rockaway, New York. When I was 11 or 12 I set up a lab in my bedroom. I had a heater and a lamb bank (which is a bunch of lamps screwed together) and a battery. When I was a kid I also loved to play with radios. I built my own crystal radio and would listen every night so a show I liked. I also did some things with electric motors and built an alarm with a bell for my door. One night my parents went out late, and when they came back, they tried to open the door very, very, very carefully, as so not to disturb me. The bell went off and I jumped out of bed yelling, "It worked!" "It worked!" In middle school I loved to do puzzles, and once in a while somebody would come to me and give me a problem assigned in their advanced math or algebra class. It would take me 15 or 20 minutes to do the problem, and I wouldn't stop till I figured it out. During the day other guys would come to me with the same problem, and I would do it for them in a flash. So there was one guy who thought I was smart, and 5 or 6 others who thought I was a super-genius. I got a fancy reputation and when I got to high school, every single conundrum known to man had to have come to me. When I was about 13, I wasn't interested in normal math classes and during math I always sat in the back corner and worked on problems that I had made up. In high school we started doing some problems that reminded me of trigonometry, but I had forgotten all that I had learned. So I began to work out all the sines, cosines, and tangents of all the angles.

I mush have been 18 when I started to work in my aunt's hotel nearby. I was always inventing new ways to do things that always seemed to fail right when the boss walked by. I was a creative person, an artist in my late years, and I was always thinking of pranks and inventions. When I went to MIT I listened to my roommates a lot, because they were both seniors and they were studying theoretical physics, which I happen to like. They would ask me and I would help them as best as I could. The problem was that when I learned the stuff, I always learned it at home, without anybody to talk to about it, so I didn't know how to pronounce anything. I would sound like a fool until I wrote it down and they understood. When I went to MIT I was only wanted to take classes in science- I was terrible at