How were you in school?

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I haven't talked about this too much on MFGG, but I was actually home-schooled through the end of high school. I think I was pretty good at learning, although in retrospect I wish I'd used more of my ample free time to learn more about programming and Excel at a younger age. I sometimes wish I'd played a team sport, although the sport I was best at has an extremely low chance of getting anyone a scholarship or a professional career.

I never got a grade worse than an A in both college and grad school, so I did pretty OK. I tried my best to soak up everything I could and participate in positive extracurricular activities.

Then I learned that once you're done with school, employers rarely care about your academic performance (although they sometimes do care whether you earned that enchanted piece of paper known as a "diploma"). It took me a little while to find a good-paying job, but I'm finally on the right track with my career now.

Course clear! You got a card.