I was a huge loser in high school. Didn't have many friends and the few people who tried to be my friend usually backed away when they realized what an unhappy asshole I was. I went from making A's and B's in elementary and middle school to D's and F's in high school. It's truly a miracle I never got held back.

I became a lot less unhappy in my senior year however when I signed up for a vo-tech class. For the latter half of the school day, I took a bus to another school and dicked around on computers for a few hours. I aced every assignment (lots of powerpoint stuff) and the grades in my other classes rose a bit too. As a bonus, once you finished your assignments for the week in the computer class, you could do whatever you wanted. So I brought in emulators and even started trying to rip movies. Got an award in some fancy ceremony for doing so well.

I'm still a loser and a bit of an asshole, but when I look up names I can remember of people I knew from back then, they seem worse off somehow. Most of them have kids and look like they lead standard, boring lives. Can't say I envy that at all.

We must be clones or some'sin.

I remember going to things where they talked to me about college and gave me some brochures, but it never went beyond that. Back then, I had the logic that I wasn't ready for college and college wasn't ready for me. Now, the liberal brainwashing bullshit is the main turn off.

I actually liked biology and didn't mind disections at all. Frogs, worms, even a baby pig once. One of few pre-senior year classes I wasn't stupid in. Joined the biology club for a couple years too, until I forgot about attending the meetings.