sentences:  Because she had been taking classes at a local junior college as a high school student, a local retired General Motors senior executive offered to help defray the costs of attending MIT.At MIT, she was one of the first residents of the McCormick Hall women's dormitory, which opened in the fall of 1963.She was the president of the Association of Women students, and also served as a physics tutor at McCormick Hall; Shirley Ann Jackson was one of the students she tutored.