means to attend college, but both taught me to love learning, to care about people and to work hard for whatever i wanted or believed in. my father was from odessa and during his growing up years when they were admitted to the russian schools, education was terribly important. my mother was loving but also very strict, making sure that i did my homework, practiced the piano, didn't stay out jumping rope too long. i loved to do what the boys did when i was young. one was climbing garage roofs