Professor Neal Burns

Today was pretty neat.  I had lunch with one of my advertising professors, Neal Burns,  and some of my colleagues.  It was nice to talk to people about what's to become of our futures and how we are all feeling the same way, nervous.  It was also cool to hear about Professor Burn's history and how he ended up working in an advertising agency.  The story was very surprising and an eye opener for sure.  He came from a family who wanted him to become a doctor, but he wanted to be a surgeon.  He goes to college, tries drugs, loses his scholarship, fails out of school, does research for the blind, his research becomes famous for awhile, gets a job with NASA, becomes head of the marketing department for NASA, goes to work at some advertising agency, is asked to become the main guy of the agency, he quits, goes back to school, and now has a PhD., teaches, and is still working with clients of his own.  How amazing is that?