Chapter Ten: Victory

1. . The account of Adriana Garza announcing the scholarship to Isaias and his family is based on interviews with the people involved. I wasn’t present when it happened.

2. . Peter Reford, “Five of the Best Computer Science Classes in the U.S.,” Bloomberg.com, June 11, 2015. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-11/five-of-the-best-computer-science-classes-in-the-country (accessed December 2, 2015).

3. . From my August 2015 interview with Wesley Thorne, who formerly worked as Carnegie Mellon’s point person for corporate recruiters. Stats on salary and job placement come from the Carnegie Mellon publication “Post-Graduation Survey Results 2014—College of Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering.” https://www.cmu.edu/career/salaries-and-destinations/2014-survey/Electrical%20and%20Computer%20Engineering5.pdf (accessed December 2, 2015).