"On a Thursday afternoon in late January, Rosalee Ramer hustled across the Georgia Institute of Technology campus, where she is a freshman studying mechanical engineering. She had to finish packing and get to the airport. She needed to bring her reading assignment for English class, her multivariable-calculus homework, and the first two chapters from her mechanical-physics textbook. Plus her laptop. “And my charge cord. I cannot forget my charge cord,” she said.
She also had to drop off some sketches to a friend with graphic-design skills who had offered to digitize some art for her. “They were ideas for my new monster-truck shirt,” she explained later. Last summer, after she turned eighteen, Ramer signed on with Monster Jam, the largest national circuit for monster-truck racing. The attendance at Monster Jam events regularly surpasses fifty thousand. Her friend wasn’t in her room, so Ramer slipped the sketches and a note under her door. At the airport, she called her father, who had just arrived in Phoenix, for that weekend’s monster-truck show, where they would both be competing. “I did my math homework on the plane to Arizona, just to get it over with,” she told me. “I’ve gotten pretty good at doing homework on planes.”"
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