What makes winning the Gold Award in Nautilus Books so important to Robert Flatt is that it is a vindication of sorts concerning a lifetime pursuit to become an English major, which was much harder than it sounds. Change was not something that came easily to him. Robert made straight As in mathematics in High School so while attending Rice University he pursued a degree in engineering. However, he was totally ambivalent about his major in math, and down-right hated... Read more