In his memoir, “Source Code: My Beginnings,” Gates wrote about his college application process as a teenager uncertain of his career path. His varying interests led him to take an unconventional approach with each university he applied to.
Gates said that when it came to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, he experimented with his “persona” while applying to each school. After joining a drama club as a hobby outside programming, acting made him feel free and more confident, he said.
“As I learned in drama class, each was a performance — one actor, three characters,” he wrote.
