Michael Mansell’s interests range from theoretical physics to economic theory to computer programming, but he wasn’t always a whiz kid. “I barely passed high school. My freshman-year GPA was 0.9. Sophomore year, it was 1-point-something,” he says. “I was a thug back in the day.” Mansell, who was born in Riverside and raised in Baltimore, … Continue reading Perseverance Led Graduate From Fractions to Physics