Summary

The chapter opens by explaining the happenings in Steve’s life starting in 1972. In that year, Jobs met Chrisann Brennan, who became his first serious girlfriend. During this period, Jobs was experimenting with strange vegetarian-esque diets and LSD. Steve explained to the author about a time when he was on LSD and he thought a wheat field was playing Bach (this can be seen in the movie “Jobs”). Around this time, Woz, Jobs, and Brennan were working as costumed “Alice in Wonderland” characters for children’s parties.

Also in 1972, Jobs went to college. His parents tried to talk him into going to the cheaper Stanford or Berkley, but he demanded that he attend Reed College, which was vastly more expensive. Even after they let him, Jobs did not allow his parents to come on the campus (another thing that he later felt...