Complex sentence: He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology but flunked out after one year but was able to get a job as an apprentice for Chicago architect George Fred Keck, a friend of the dean of MIT.
Split into simpler sentences: He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but flunked out after one year. However, he was able to get a job as an apprentice for Chicago architect George Fred Keck, a friend of the dean of MIT.