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Show The Forum - 3 or Fyim at Westminster College for Staff Writer four years. When asked why he chose Computers, Norton replied that "I am For someone who got an engineer, and computers are a tool that I need' into teaching because it was an assignment, John John Norton was born of a lot raised in Dover, New has and Norton helped students. Hampshire. He came to While attending Air Utah because of his wife's Force Academy, he was job. Now the reside in Utah, assigned to teach math at the couple has two chickens the university of Utah. and a cat. Norton is an avid This assignment has led cyclist, and has ridden his to a career, and an bike from Washington to Maine. His hidden goals inspiration at Westminster. are to "ride my bike across After Norton had Alaska. I also want to write been teaching math for a a book. A fiction book." Norton says that while at Westminster, another professor left, looking back at his time in and a job was offered to college, and as a young Norton in the computer adult, he wishes that he would have asked more department. He gladly accepted the change. questions, and found more Norton has now been mentors. "Sometimes you By Becky Pugmire , , just don't know what questions to ask, but now, I have like 140,000." He offers the students of Westminster his advice. "Evaluate your choices. From what you eat to your career. These choices are what will make you who you will be for the rest of your life." According to Jake Hackford, a student at Westminster, "He is very passionate about his program. He has a good personality, and is funny". With these words coming from a man who knows what it is like to have your career "assigned" to you, he implores students to make your their choices, and control their own destiny.O John Norton, Computer Science professor at Westminster College. Bsalong Wifa 'aduatiom Feairs person and it By Leslie Frances showed me that I had to Contributing Writer work hard and survive against all odds. And my My father's voice father was right, I did boomed over the phone, accomplish something "You cannot accept a job honorable but whether I get for less than $30,000 ir a job that pays $30,000 or they cannot promise you not, I know college was a increase over the next never a waste. two years." I am sure my father My heart sank, and I knows it was never a waste; started to wonder if he he simply wants me to have thought it was all a the best because he believes waste. I tried to explain in me. that I only had a We were the ones that bachelor's degree and that it was not something started at age 18, 19, when we thought we knew no one else had, it everything. We fought to seemed to me that get from under our parents everyone had one. Why wings. We wanted to face would a company hire the world. So, we boarded me over anyone else? the train headed for a Our conversation continued to run through higher education. Imagine a train holding my head for days, and I rew disheartened. I later hundreds of passengers each with the same goal egan to realize why it and whether they knew it bothered me so much; it or not, each with the same was because my destination. The ride moves education was about along slowly, allowing more than just getting a well-round- job. My education taught me how to become a 'XOAviffi SYcojQDiT ((Dfivfin InkoiJSX?'1' ed See Fear, page 7 i IStoilvtidM (bandamiattend tIIi iJr.itf HWI Ct.nlli si ilfcl "I" YlYft i r ui ftittiiii. ()M SMI1 4iMi UiSl m)7ii f )M xVitHSM |