[Nevermark]

You really don’t want to see my pre-university grades.

I was on a mission, and I can’t do two things at once. So school was about efficiency. I got great grades wherever that took low effort. That only went so far.

After graduation, nowhere I wanted to be would have looked at me.

It took me a couple years after high school to find the right university, but my personal projects paid off.

Looking back, it was a gamble. But you don’t really choose those kinds of paths.