Grace was very curious as a child; this was a lifelong trait. At the age of seven, she decided to determine how an alarm clock worked, and dismantled seven alarm clocks before her mother realized what she was doing (she was then limited to one clock).<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Dickason |first=Elizabeth |url=http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Grace_Murray_Hopper.htm |title=Looking Back: Grace Murray Hopper's Younger Years |journal=Chips |date=April 1992}}</ref> For her [[University-preparatory school|preparatory school]] education, she attended the [[Wardlaw-Hartridge School|Hartridge School]] in [[Plainfield, New Jersey]]. Hopper was initially rejected for early admission to [[Vassar College]] at age 16 (her test scores in Latin were too low), but she was admitted the following year. She graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from Vassar in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and earned her master's degree at [[Yale University]] in 1930. |
Grace was very curious as a child; this was a lifelong trait. At the age of seven, she decided to determine how an alarm clock worked, and dismantled seven alarm clocks before her mother realized what she was doing (she was then limited to one clock).<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Dickason |first=Elizabeth |url=http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Grace_Murray_Hopper.htm |title=Looking Back: Grace Murray Hopper's Younger Years |journal=Chips |date=April 1992}}</ref> For her [[University-preparatory school|preparatory school]] education, she attended the [[Wardlaw-Hartridge School|Hartridge School]] in [[Plainfield, New Jersey]]. Hopper was initially rejected for early admission to [[Vassar College]] at age 16 (her test scores in Latin were too low), but she was admitted the following year. She graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from Vassar in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and earned her master's degree at [[Yale University]] in 1930. |