Arkansas College of Technology

I'm told this entrance exam was written by all the professors with the intention to make you fail it and to find out were your weaknesses are in order to show the professors were you would need help on. Almost the entire first year by the way was going to be calculating formulas. Now this test was completely mathmetics of around 500 questions and it was being videotaped. They said to ensure none cheated. There were people from the military, people from IBM, college students, pretty much from all walks of life and here I was a high school drop out. My professors told me later on to never say that again. I can't say I breezed through it and I remember my professor asking me if I was sure I didn't want to go back over it and check my answers because we still had time left. I told him no that was how I normally made mistakes by second guessing myself. So I went outside to smoke and wait on my twin brother Keith (Tax) to get done then we were supposed to go to Lunch and come back at 1pm. As we were walking up to the room I could see all of the professors huddled together. A couple of them we yelling at the examing professor. They were watching the exam video with the school dean setting off to the side with his glasses in his mouth. Like he was chewing on the ear piece looked to be like a nervous twitch. As we walked in everyone got quiet. The dean stood up and asked me if I was Cory Triplett. I told him I was and he asked me if I would come with him to his office. I'm like oh shit what did I do now. On the way to his office I had all kinds of things running through my head. I figured my grant probably didn't go through. But if that was the case he would have asked to talk to Keith too right. We finally got to his office and he asked me to have a seat. I did then asked him OK now what's going on. He said Cory they think you cheated. I said that was Bull Shit. The dean said he knew but they had to look over the films anyway because as he said I made all his professors look stupid. I said and how in the hell did I do that. He opened up a file he had in his hand and pulled out my test. In big bold Red ink I saw it. It blew my mind 120. The extra 20 was a essay at the end asking you why you wanted to go to this school. To help the kids that still needed some work but could still get in. He said that test had never been aced before. Omg your shitting me and as we talked for a while he asked me if I would be interested in being the student body president. I told him no that I figured the school was going to be hard enough without any distractions. He told me not to worry about the professors just get in and do my best. He told me he expected to see good things from me after basics which was the first year. I called it number crunches. When you learn the components and formulas. How to read color codes and things like that. Its also when I discovered my love for binary programming. Everyone hated it but it was nothing more to me than memorization. During this first year was also what separated the men from the boys. I saw a lot of my friends fail out. During this first year we weren't allowed to help each other out because they said they had to make sure each student really got it. To make sure none was doing someone else's work.This time period was also when I found out that it wasn't just my smarts that was guideing me through this course but in some way I felt like I could feel the energy of the electrical flow. I know sounds crazy but I could feel my way through a broken motherboard without using any equipment and tell you were the break in current was. To find the part that was defective. By the way that's what we were being trained for, was to repair these up and coming computers that were hitting the market. Now grant this time period was about 5 years before the internet. I was there to watch the birth of our baby as we called her. The internet as you come to know it. I was there when the internet was a gammer and his friends would call him and ask to play his games and he would connect his phone directly to the computer. You I told my professor that someday binary programming would be obsolete. That we could developed a program to talk to the computer directly instead of this tedious programing. He and all my classmates laughed at me but that's OK because I think you call it Java Script Now. Now who's laughing.