Fill in the Blanks LL Chapter 11 GapfillOnline version A gapfill based on first few paragraphs of Chapter 11 of The Last Lecture by John E 1 working computer qualifications application something application absolute armies low experts mantra professor environment budget IN 1969 , when I was eight years old , my family went on a crosscountry trip to see Disneyland . It was an quest . And once we got there , I was just in awe of the place . It was the coolest I'd ever been in . As I stood in line ? Two decades later , when I got my PhD in science from Carnegie Mellon , I thought that made me infinitely qualified to do anything , so I dashed off my letters of to Walt Disney Imagineering . And they sent me some of the nicest go - to - hell letters I'd ever received . They said they had reviewed my , and they did not have " any positions which require your particular . " Nothing ? This is a company famous for hiring of people to sweep the streets ! ? So that was a setback . But I kept my in mind : The brick walls are there for a reason . They're not there to keep us out . The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want . Fast - forward to 1995 . I'd become a at the University of Virginia , and I'd helped build a system called " Virtual Reality on Five Dollars a Day . " This was at a time when virtual reality were insisting they'd need a half - million dollars to do anything . And my colleagues and I did our own little version of the Hewlett - Packard garage thing and hacked together a - virtual reality system .
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