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Upon graduating from Medford\u2019s public high school, Bloomberg got into Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He was accepted to the prestigious university, at least in part, because his boss at the electronics company, who was an engineer and MIT graduate, reached out to people she knew at Johns Hopkins\u2019 Applied Physics Laboratory to recommend Bloomberg. After touring the campus, he was immediately sold.
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\u201cI\u2019d never seen anything more beautiful in my life. The sun was shining. The flowers were out. In those days, people spent a lot of money on the grounds,\u201d Bloomberg said in a 1999 interview<\/a>. He was able to attend Johns Hopkins University and pay his $1,600<\/a> annual tuition through government loans and by working a job in a campus parking lot that paid him $35 a week<\/a>. Already an Eagle Scout and known for being a go-getter, Bloomberg was quick to join campus groups at Johns Hopkins. Most notably, he became the first Jewish student to join the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. He would go on to become<\/a> the president of his fraternity, of the Inter-Fraternity Council and eventually of his graduating class. \u201cFraternities at Johns Hopkins weren\u2019t much different from the classic John Belushi movie, \u2018Animal House,\u2019\u202f\u201d Bloomberg wrote<\/a> in his memoir. \u201cThough Hopkins was a serious place, and very competitive scholastically, we did drink and party a lot together.\u201d Although Bloomberg is known to portray himself in college as a partier, that\u2019s only half-true. His college friends, including his fraternity brother Matthew Crenson, are quick to recall his consistent hard work. \u201cDid he exaggerate? We had a lot of parties and he was at all of them but I never saw him drunk and saw a lot of others drunk. He seemed very determined, the way he would work,\u201d Crenson told Joyce Purnick for her biography \u201cMike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics<\/a>.\u201d Undoubtedly, though, Bloomberg was well known as the party planner. He\u2019d come up with elaborate schemes that would occasionally succeed and other times fall through. \u201cI remember in November I had planned a big fraternity dance in the gym,\u201d Bloomberg said in the 1999 interview, \u201cand we had spent all our budget hiring James Brown and the Flames to play, and then [John F.] Kennedy got shot and we canceled the dance and couldn’t get our deposit back. Never got the deposit back.\u201d Interestingly, Bloomberg also made his mark on Johns Hopkins by designing and creating<\/a> the college\u2019s Blue Jay mascot. He also served as the mascot for a handful of lacrosse games. But in the classroom, Bloomberg had few ideas about what he wanted to study. He decided to major in engineering, despite having minimal interest in pursuing a career in the subject. \u201cI think it\u2019s fair to say I had absolutely no Idea what I would do,\u201d Bloomberg told the New York Times<\/a>. \u201cI went in thinking I would study physics, but German was a requirement, so I changed to the engineering school. The whole idea of college is to expose yourself to various ideas and cultures and places, to minor in something different, to travel abroad.\u201d Until his senior year, Bloomberg had a straight C average, something he attributes<\/a> to being \u201clazy\u201d and spending too much time \u201cchasing the girls.\u201d Yet, again, his friends may disagree with that sentiment and instead blame his extracurricular activities for taking away from his studying. “Mike was always working,” Jack Galotto, who recruited Bloomberg to his fraternity, told the Baltimore Sun<\/a>. “He tried to give the illusion that he wasn’t doing that much, that he was just hanging out, but he always made sure he got things done.” Galotto has said<\/a> that, unlike most 18-year-old boys, Bloomberg\u2019s freshman dorm room was spotless and organized. Nonetheless, by April 1963, any of Bloomberg\u2019s party-kid qualities — real or fabricated — went away. That was the month his father died unexpectedly from heart failure at age 57. His friends at the time recall that his father\u2019s death instilled a new intensity<\/a> in Bloomberg. That intensity fueled his desire to become someone special, and that meant going to Harvard Business School, a school that had always impressed<\/a> his father. So, for the first semester of his senior year, he took a double-course load and got all As. \u201cI applied to business school and got in, much to everyone\u2019s amazement, particularly mine. Then I went right back to getting Cs for my last semester,\u201d Bloomberg said in an interview for the book \u201cGetting There<\/a>.\u201d Bloomberg graduated from Johns Hopkins with an engineering degree in 1964 and immediately enrolled at Harvard Business School. He knew that he was not cut out to be an engineer. Instead, he thought business management might be a better option. He\u2019d built up the experience and an interest in the subject from his leadership roles at Johns Hopkins. By the time Bloomberg reached Harvard\u2019s campus in 1964, it was the peak of the Vietnam War — a time filled with debate and protest. Bloomberg, however, largely stayed away<\/a> from it all. He was drafted in 1966, but was rejected due to having flat feet. At Harvard, Bloomberg\u2019s own comments suggest he went back to his old ways. \u201cI always sat at the back by the door so I could duck out for a cigarette or sneak out when it looked like I might get called on,\u201d Bloomberg said in the 1999 interview. But, of course, that could be an exaggeration. After all, Bloomberg did graduate in 1966, on time. Upon graduation, he joined the investment banking company Salomon Brothers and went on to form his own company in 1981. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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