The two or three hours a day that I spent at the gym stretched my muscles but not my mind. I signed up for a computer programming class and a nutrition class (because I was trying to learn more about living a healthy lifestyle) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In my first week there, I powered the workstation off and on while constantly typing "Control-C," which broke the computer out of its boot-up script and gave me administrative privileges, or "root." Minutes later an administrator came running into the room, shouting, "What are you doing?!"