Childhood: Entry 3

When he was 17, he met a girl named Chrisann Brennan who was a year younger than him in Homestead High School. They developed a big, messy, teen romance and began taking LSD together at school and discussing books they read. Brennan explained how much Jobs was affected by his adoption and how much he discussed a book about how mothers and fathers would fail to love their children. She said that using LSD wasn’t just a way for Jobs to live a better life. She said that it was a way for him to deal with the pain of his parents abandoning him. Later the couple moved to a cabin in the mountains but Steve left Chrisann to keep his parents promise to his birth parents of sending him to college. He enrolled at Reed, a private school in Oregon, but dropped out by the end of the first semester. “I couldn’t see the value in it,” said Jobs. “I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.” He chose to end his college career and just hope for the best. He didn’t leave Reed campus immediately though. He hung around and audited a class in calligraphy.

Sources: EBSCOhost: The Steve Jobs Nobody Know, allaboutSteveJobs.com