7.
“I was a very enthusiastic student
growing up, and I really liked learning
and I liked school, and I was good at it,”
Stephen Randolph began.^7 He is a tall
young man with carefully combed dark
brown hair and neatly pressed khakis. “I
took high school algebra starting in
fourth grade. Then I did algebra two in
fifth grade and geometry in sixth grade.
By the time I got to middle school, I was
going to high school for math and for
biology, chemistry, and Advanced
Placement U.S. history. I also went to a
local college starting in fifth grade,
taking some math, but I did other science