One critical experience that defined the direction I was to go
in as I entered university was my effort to grasp matriculation
physics. From early September to some time in November 1962 I tried
to disentangle the mysteries of physics and the difficulties
associated with acceleration due to gravity, speeds of 32 feet per
second per second, et cetera. I must have spent an average of an
hour each night in my homework sessions for nearly three months
doing physics 'problems.' But it was to no avail; I knew I was not
going to pass physics if I stayed in that course, so I switched to
history several weeks before the Christmas exam. Had I been able to
work out the physics in my homeworkI might have become a
doctor.
I got the highest mark in the class in history, an 80, and I never
attended one class. This seemed to confirm to me that the arts and
not the sciences was the direction of my career as I entered
university in September of 1963. How accurate that confirmation was
hardly mattered because without physics in my grade 13 marks the
entire world of the sciences was just not available for me to
pursue.
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I poured over my books four hours every night, doing the homework
assignments, trying to understand nine different subjects so that,
in the end, in May and June of 1963, I would be able to pass those
examinations. And, in the end, I did. I got a seventy-three percent
average. It was enough to enter university which I did in September
of 1963. I was also able to direct my energies that year to the
fast, the first I ever went on and it was a terribly difficult
experience. My mother worried about my haggard appearance
especially at 6:30 pm after a long day when it was time to eat and
I wanted to wait 'til the sun went down at 6:45. Homework was
difficult when fasting but the Baha'i Faith was critical to me as
well.-Ron Price, Tasmania 
