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It's never too late to reinvent yourself Or in the case of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology mechanical engineering sophomore Tim Balz, too soon.
Though he's only 20 years old, Balz has already had his first life-changing epiphany. As a freshman at Plainfield High School, he was a three-letter athlete but an indifferent student. So indifferent that he was counseled to drop some of his honors-level classes and concentrate on sports. But one of his instructors felt it was time for him to raise his horizons.
"My industrial technology teacher must have seen something in me that others hadn't, because he convinced me to quit all my sports so I could help him start our first school robotics team," Balz...