Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California.[2] He frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California, and was later hired there, working with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee.[26] Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although
he dropped out after only one semester,[27] he continued auditing classes at Reed, while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple.[28] Jobs later said, "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."[28]
In 1974, Jobs took a job as a technician at Atari, Inc.,[2] a manufacturer of video games, with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India.[citation needed]
Jobs then traveled to India to visit Neem Karoli Baba[29] at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend (and, later, an early Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment.
He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing.[30][31] During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".[32] He later said that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking
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