Isaac Webb could not have imagined, back in high school in Maine, that his desire to avoid physics and calculus would eventually lead him to a career, love and marriage. But, it could be argued, that is exactly how it happened.
Mr. Webb still wanted to be attractive to competitive colleges, so after reading Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” he thought he might have found an alternative path toward evidence of his merit. Instead of signing on for advanced placement courses in high school that didn’t interest him, he enrolled in Russian language and history classes at a nearby college.
