Steven Paul Jobs

Reed College
I was interested in Eastern mysticism which hit the shores about then. At Reed there was a constant flow of people stopping by – from Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, to Gary Snyder. There was a constant flow of intellectual questioning about the truth of life. That was the time when every college student in the country read Be Here Now and Diet for a Small Planet.
—Steve Jobs^{[15][page needed]}
In September 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.^[34] He insisted on applying only to Reed, although it was an expensive school that Paul and Clara could ill afford.^[35] Jobs soon befriended Robert Friedland,^[36] who was Reed's student body president at that time.^{[15][page needed]} Brennan remained involved with Jobs while he was at Reed. He later asked her to come and live with him in a house he rented near the Reed campus, but she refused.^{[citation needed]}
After just one semester, Jobs dropped out of Reed College without telling his parents.^[37] Jobs later explained this was because he did not want to spend his parents' money on an education that seemed meaningless to him. He continued to attend by auditing his classes,^[38] including a course on calligraphy that was taught by Robert Palladino. In a 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University, Jobs stated that during this period, he slept on the floor in friends' dorm rooms, returned Coke bottles for food money, and got weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. In that same speech, Jobs said: "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts".^[39]
1974–1985
See also: History of Apple § 1971–1985: Jobs and Wozniak
I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money […] There are people around here who start companies just to make money, but the great companies, well, that's not what they're about.
—Steve Jobs^[40]