[rubberband]

I think this post is brilliant (really cool) for more than one reason.

You give hope to the underachievers that they can better themselves (related: my GPA was lower than yours :)).

You give great advice on mental illness (if I may editorialize: seek help if you think you may need it; it changed my life like I think it changed yours).

I see so many posts from FAANG employees... I don't think that I could pass the IQ test for being a janitor at those places. /shrug. So happy to see "regular?" people here.

My "Grass Is Greener" syndrome says that I almost wish I was still bartending...

[pksebben]

that "underachiever" thing .. I've begun to see how woefully inadequate our systems for learning are for leveraging the potential in some folks, like me, and I imagine yourself.

Because I'm not dumb. I'd bet you aren't, either. But our social sorting hat is opinionated and we're not it's favorite.

Thank Cerf for the Internet, or I'd have been SOL. I don't do well in classrooms, but I've managed to learn every bit I might have needed and more. I think that we're about due for a competitor to the traditional school model.

Power to the regular folks.