Bill Gates Accomplishments

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The American Dream is attainable for everyone because you can do anything you basically put your mind to. People always talk about their hardships they had to get to where they are now today. Like the example I’m using would be Bill Gates. Showing his success and process in his dream tells you that you can really do whatever you put your mind to. Bill Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, he studied at the Lakeside School where he had his interest in computing. He was 13 when he wrote his first software program on the school’s computer. By the time he was in high school he, along with some of his friends, had computerized their school’s payroll system. His future business collaborator, Paul Allen, was a senior at Lakeside. At the age of 17, Gates teamed up with Allen to form a venture called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor. He graduated from high school in 1973. He was a National Merit Scholar and scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT!. He enrolled at Harvard College later the same year. As a college student he spent a lot of time on the computers then his actual classes. …show more content…

Gates did not really have a study regimen. Instead, he could get by on a few hours of sleep, cram for a test, and pass with a reasonable grade. Within two years Gates dropped out of college in 1975 to pursue his business, Microsoft, with partner Paul Allen. As you can guess, his parents weren’t to happy with his