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Carson says he narrowed his college choices to Harvard or Yale, but could only
afford the $10 application fee to apply to one of them. He said he decided to "NEXUS 14
apply to Yale after seeing a team from Yale defeat a team from Harvard on the
G.E. College Bowl television show.

While attending college Carson worked at variety of jobs: as a clerk in the BETWEEN
payroll office of Ford Motor Company, as a supervisor of a six-person crew
picking up trash along the highway that was part of a federal government jobs
program for inner-city students, as a clerk in the mail room of Young & Rubicam
Advertising, assembling fender parts and inspecting back window louvers on
the assembly line at Chrysler, as a crane operator at Sennett Steel, and finally as MEDICINE AND
a radiology technician taking X-rays. At Yale, Carson had a part-time job on
campus as a student police aide.

After medical school, Carson completed his residency in neurosurgery at Johns HOUSING."
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. While at Johns Hopkins, Carson
figured in the revival of the hemispherectomy, a drastic surgical procedure in
which part or all of one hemisphere of the brain is removed to control severe
pediatric epilepsy. Encouraged by John M. Freeman, he refined the procedure in -Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing
the 1980s and performed it many times. In 1987, Carson was the lead
neurosurgeon of a 70-member surgical team that separated conjoined twins, and Urban Development nominee
Patrick and Benjamin Binder, who had been joined at the back of the head
(craniopagus twins) According to the Washington Post, the Binder surgery
"launched the stardom" of Carson, who "walked out of the operating room that
day into a spotlight that has never dimmed"

In March 2013, Carson announced he

would retire as a surgeon, saying:
"I'd much rather quit when I'm at

the top of my game."

in his book "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL" he wrote: "I
believe it is a very good idea for physicians,
scientists, engineers, and others trained to make
decisions based on facts and empirical data to get
involved in the political arena." On May 2, 2015,
Carson proclaimed that in two days, he was going to
make a major announcement on his decision on
whether to enter the Presidential Race.

May 4, 2015, at the Music Hall Center for the
Performing Arts in his home town of Detroit, he
officially announced his run for the Republican
nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Despite a surge in the polls Carson eventually
withdrew himself from the race. A move that
President Trump said garnered him huge respect,
and eventually lead to his nomination for Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development.

While the path he took to his unanimous vote at the
senate banking committee was unconventional Ben
Carson has inspired many on the way, and with the
unaimous vote backing him it appears the HUD will
rest safely in the steady hands of the world
renowned Neurosurgeon. Source: breitbart, wikipedia.