Susan Linduist interview: Were you a top student in school?
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I was a very good student. I was smart, I guess, and had a very good memory.
But I was also, I have to confess, rather lazy.
I guess maybe in part also because I didn’t really think seriously in any way about having a career...
...or that I was going to be able to do anything.
I remember when I went away to college.
My father said “What are you going to do with a college education?”
He was a very strong supporter of education in general,
but didn’t really see what a higher education was going to do for me as a woman.
And as I went away to college there was some kind of idea that maybe I could be a doctor, maybe I could do something interesting,
but I wasn’t really sure about it.
I went away to college and I always got mostly A's and B's,
and I was able to do that without working too hard, I have to admit. I was a rather lazy student.
It wasn’t until I got into graduate school in Harvard,
where all of a sudden, in order to do well, you had to work.
Luckily I found that I did have the capacity to work when I was challenged sufficiently.
I really did like learning something new and mastering something new.
So I think in graduate school I became a very good student.