I want to thank you profusely for the wonderful recollection of your encounters with Professor Jensen. He was also a driving force in my world as well. I remember sitting and talking with him in my youth and questioning him on all the amazing things he had collected in the years before I knew him. Professor Jensen opened a world to me that I had only scratched at the surface of. I learned from him that knowledge and intellect must be balanced with a life lived outside the mind, one lived in the now and, most importantly, in the what might be. I am entering into a Master's program next spring (albeit nowhere near the realm of comupter science) with the eventual hope of becoming a teacher like Professor Jensen. I imagine one might say it was inevitable for me to be influenced by him: he gave me an enduring nickname (onw I won't boor you with here) not too long after I was born. Incidentally, I never called him "Professor," because to me he was (and always will be) "Uncle Pete."
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Re: Thanks for the recollections.
Date: 2007-08-19 04:22 pm (UTC)I want to thank you profusely for the wonderful recollection of your encounters with Professor Jensen. He was also a driving force in my world as well. I remember sitting and talking with him in my youth and questioning him on all the amazing things he had collected in the years before I knew him. Professor Jensen opened a world to me that I had only scratched at the surface of. I learned from him that knowledge and intellect must be balanced with a life lived outside the mind, one lived in the now and, most importantly, in the what might be. I am entering into a Master's program next spring (albeit nowhere near the realm of comupter science) with the eventual hope of becoming a teacher like Professor Jensen. I imagine one might say it was inevitable for me to be influenced by him: he gave me an enduring nickname (onw I won't boor you with here) not too long after I was born. Incidentally, I never called him "Professor," because to me he was (and always will be) "Uncle Pete."
His great-nephew, Richard.