GUEST COURSE

In athletics, a baton is a short stick that is passed from one runner to another in a relay race.

If someone passes the baton to someone else, they pass the responsibility for something to that person.

Steve Jobs: "I felt that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me."

If a fact or idea dawns on you, you realize it. This is an idiom.

Steve Jobs: "But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did.”

If you drop in on someone (or a class), you visit them informally, usually without having arranged it.

Steve dropped in on a calligraphy class.

If you drop out of college (university) or high school, you leave it without finishing what you started.

Example: She dropped out of high school after her second year.

Also can be a a noun: a college dropout, a high school dropout.

An idiom that means to study to understand or find a solution; to deduce.

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

An idiomatic expression that means to discover (in this context).

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.

If someone's behavior or judgment is foolish, it is not sensible and shows a lack of good judgment.

"Stay hungry, stay foolish." In this context, foolish might contain a component of innocence, but what Steve Jobs means is trust your own intuition, even if someone else judges it as not sensible.

Literally, this means "all the organs inside a person or animal".

A gut feeling is based on instinct or emotion rather than reason.