To: wagglebee
I was 18, and pretty much the same experience...then I went to Nuclear Power School and figured out I wasn’t NEARLY as smart as I thought I was (I did get through it, but WHEW!!)
20 posted on
10/11/2010 4:55:11 PM PDT by
LexRex in TN
("A republic, if you can keep it.......")
To: LexRex in TN
I've come to realize that unless you want to be in a highly-specialized scientific field that ANY moderately intelligent person can be successful if they are willing to work hard.
My intelligence actually caused me to become very bored in school (except for history) and I have an inherent lazy streak that took me years to overcome.
39 posted on
10/11/2010 5:12:11 PM PDT by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: LexRex in TN
“I went to Nuclear Power School and figured out I wasn’t NEARLY as smart as I thought I was”
Heard that from more than one person, and even considered it myself.
Went into crypto-linguistics, instead. (yeah, I know...)
63 posted on
10/11/2010 9:56:05 PM PDT by
tcrlaf
(Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
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