I've been a nerd a long time. I didn't get a locker in my freshman
year of high school so I carried all of my books everywhere at school
that year. Asking with my Star Trek book that I was reading at the
time.
In college I had a Commodore 64 computer and ran the Geoworks
graphical user interface (GUI) on it so I could type up my papers with
bigger fonts :-)
One semester I turned in my semester "term" paper on heat transfer
paper. I had gotten a printer and some rolls of paper to use with it
so I thought I'd give it a try.
I thought it looked great! Yes the paper was different and didn't stay
flat the way bonded typewriter paper did but it was the correct number
of pages and met the word count rules.
My professors were very unhappy with me about this. I had to argue my
case for using the heat transfer paper with most of them for a
semester. But they eventually accepted it. Woohoo!
I was a bit of a rebel, too. In my own way :-)
