Sachar attended college at Antioch in Ohio his first year, but upon the death of his father he returned to California to be close to his mother. Going to school at Berkeley, he majored in economics, but also took creative writing courses and continued to indulge his voracious reading habits. At one point in his studies, enchanted with Russian literature, he decided to learn the language so he could read these novels in their original version. "After taking a year of Russian," he once commented, "I realized it was still Greek to me. A week into the semester I dropped out of Russian V and tried to figure out what other class I should take instead."
At this point, serendipity intruded into Sachar's life. An elementary school girl was handing out leaflets at his campus in the hopes of recruiting teachers' aides. Such work would earn him three college credits, enough to make up for the dropped language class. Without really thinking about it, Sachar took one of the leaflets and signed on as a teacher's aide. "Prior to that time I had no interest whatsoever in kids," Sachar once said.
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