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Comment author: Solvent 28 March 2012 11:02:02PM 0 points [-]

He and I both went to a fairly good school. He's doing the IB at the moment, which was certainly difficult for me, and very challenging to most of the people who did it.

I was certainly never challenged in school, and neither were my friends. This was not because I was a genius, however, but because the teachers and textbook authors were of the grade better used as landfill. Sadly I had no encouragement from adults and couldn't switch schools or drop out, and I didn't have the will or resourcefulness to do anything useful in my free time.

Yeah, my school was better than that, even if nowhere as good as university.