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To: Kriggerel

I was reading about one of these prodigy kids at my Alma mater, a top engineering school. It sounded like he had one specific mentor and other help to deal with it all.

When I was there there were 1 or 2 suicides a year. All of the kids at the school had been top students in high school, so getting a B or C was probably pretty stressful.

My old man would tell folks that asked about how I was doing and my grades he’d say “Well, mostly B’s and C’s - but that would be all A’s anywhere else!” (Later on I got a couple of D’s as well - but as we used to say “D is for Diploma!”)


17 posted on 03/14/2021 1:11:28 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: 21twelve

Go into medicine. We’ve only scratched the surface on the inner workings of the body.


22 posted on 03/14/2021 1:14:16 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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