[chinpokomon]

I was forced to take a CS High School course by my school district for being computer illiterate, despite having already taken two college programming courses in BASIC and Pascal, and working at a local Egghead Software. I took CS 2 AP and self-taught myself C in about a month. After figuring out how to get around the Novell network restrictions and running unsupervised Doom death matches and Street Fighter 2 tournaments with my classmates, I was reassigned as a student aid to run around the campus to fix teacher's computers.

Probably a better use of my time and channel of my curiosity.