Vlad Tenev

He's adjusting to the new school.

He's not talking to the other children yet, but he's at least not crying and he enjoys playing with these toys and drawing or whatnot.

And that made me kind of sad.

It's like, oh.

I wasn't talking to the other children for probably four or five months.

But yeah, I remember being frustrated because I wanted to play with a certain thing or a toy and I didn't know how to express that to the teacher and she wouldn't understand me when I tried.

That was probably my...

my memory from kindergarten and just seeing all the different types of kids.

It was a very cosmopolitan.

People from University of Maryland would send their kids to the schools, like the local school.

So it was just smart kids, right?

Professors, kids, grad students, postdocs.

So that kind of blew my mind and that was really cool.

impacted your life is that one of the pieces of why you are who you are i think absolutely i think about it now in the context of having my own children right i have three kids who are roughly that age you know i have a eight-year-old a seven-year-old and a three-year-old so right around this time period and

they have everything right they can get the best tutors got a chess teacher someone teaching them piano yeah when i was that age my parents were they each had two jobs so i basically they would drop me off at the bus stop in the morning i would come back from school at 3 p.m i'd have to walk back as a five-year-old from the bus stop to my apartment

At first, my parents would say, okay, go to the, our neighbor upstairs has your key, so just go and she'll give you the key and let you in and whatnot and make sure you're all right.

Then they realized, well, we're asking a lot of this kid.

He's just already walking a mile from the bus stop and everything and navigating all this complex logistics.

We might as well just have him

keep the key in his backpack.