Aldo diSorbo's school stuggles

Aldo diSorbo manifested during his school years a lot of interest in physics and his favorite field was quantum physics. That’s why, during high-school, he gave up on reading fictional books to allocate more time for his new interest. He read avidly anything on the subject: research papers, textbooks, university lab manuals.

All the science text he read helped Aldo develop his writing style, gaining a new and important skill. He was familiar with the terminology, its use and he could write a paper at an academical-level. His knowledge and his writing were the reasons Aldo was admitted at the most prestigious Engineering University in the country, with an honors-scholarship.

    Although he worked closely with various professors from the Physics Department, he couldn’t develop a thesis on all of his research. In some mysterious way, all his experiments ended up classified as ‘no conclusive results’ or ‘no significant statistic modification observed’.

    His advisor didn’t see this as a failure, but considered that ‘Aldo was always trying to get too many results from just one experiment. He didn’t have the necessary equipment for the number of subjects required for such tasks. This kind of problematic issues should be studied at a graduate-level.

    But to go to Graduate School, Aldo needed money for his tuition and personal expenses and he started searching for a job. He couldn’t commit to a particular company because a contract would have stopped him from continuing his studies, so he tried applying for temporary positions.

    In just one month, he got a job as a reporter to a local science magazine. The chief editor was impressed with the Aldo’s skills and his conversational style, saying ‘He could explain any scientific discovery in such a way that even a peasant could understand. And that was indeed impressive’.

    In just a few months from his employment, Aldo diSorbo was promoted to assistant editor and after that to a full editor position. One of his friends considers that ‘this was the moment when he decided he wasn’t going to be a <<scientist>>; writing brought him much more satisfaction that any other experiment or research he conducted.”

His colleagues motivated Aldo to write on his own, and when he was only 24 years old, 3 of his papers were already published. “Guide to science” part 1, 2 and 3 explained chemistry, biology and physics at an elementary level and were very popular among students.