Beginning of History
Steve Jobs's biological parents were two UW-Madison students at the time who met on campus. Jobs biological father ,Abdulfattah "John" Jandali , a Syrian post-graduate who later taught at UW-Madison, met Jobs's biological mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, a Swiss-American Catholic, in some mutual classes together. When Joanne became pregnant her family did not approve of her relationship, so they decided to go to San Francisco to give birth to the unborn baby and give him up for adoption to two college grads so they knew he would have a good home. Clara and Paul Jobs, which neither had attended college, convinced Joanne to sign the adoption papers because she said they would encourage the child to go to college. Paul, who was a mechanic and a carpenter, taught his son about electronics as a young boy, Jobs later admitted to Walter Isaacson that that was the reason he became so interested in electronics and wanted to pursue a lifetime filled with it. Clara had taught him to read before he went to school so Jobs was usually ahead of everyone. He was so advanced that he was offered to skip two grades but his parents only let him skip one. When he enrolled in Homestead High School, his neighbor and classmate, Bill Fernandez, introduced him to his other neighbor, Steve "Woz" Wozniak. Woz and Fernandez had already built a computer board named "The Cream Soda Board" and when they showed Jobs he was interested in the project. After high school Jobs enrolled in Reed College, which was so expensive that his parents could barely afford it, so he dropped out after six months, but still audited classes at the university.