Terry Gross

And yet you were held to the same standard.

And I understand why the leaders of the university would not want to make like you a special student with a different standard.

And you probably wouldn't have wanted that for yourself either.

However, it seems to me so unfair that you who were, you know,

nearly killed, who was still recovering from that psychologically, emotionally, physically, and who didn't have the same education as the other students, were held to the same standard and the same timetable.

And you were falling behind.

You were used to being like really smart.

And that was part of your identity.

And you were like the girl activist standing up for education.

And suddenly you were barely passing your classes.

Nearly failing.

What do you think they maybe could have done to help you during that time or to better understand what you were going through?

It just strikes me as being very unfair.

Let me just say you had donated your, with your Nobel Prize money.

You and your father created a fund to support girls' schools.

Yes.

So you had to keep vigilant about that in addition to all the other stuff that I mentioned.

Did you accept the fact that you weren't in the upper tier of the ultra-smart academic students?

You were 15 when you won the Nobel Prize.

A bit older than 15.