A Munchkin is the sort of person who, faced with a role-playing game, reads through the rulebooks over and over until he finds a way to combine three innocuous-seeming magical items into a cycle of infinite wish spells. Or who, in real life, composes a surprisingly effective diet out of drinking a quarter-cup of extra-light olive oil at least one hour before and after tasting anything else. Or combines liquid nitrogen and antifreeze and life-insurance policies into a ridiculously cheap method of defeating the invincible specter of unavoidable Death. Or figures out how to build the real-life version of the cycle of infinite wish spells.
It seems that many here might have outlandish ideas for ways of improving our lives. For instance, a recent post advocated installing really bright lights as a way to boost alertness and productivity. We should not adopt such hacks into our dogma until we're pretty sure they work; however, one way of knowing whether a crazy idea works is to try implementing it, and you may have more ideas than you're planning to implement.
So: please post all such lifehack ideas! Even if you haven't tried them, even if they seem unlikely to work. Post them separately, unless some other way would be more appropriate. If you've tried some idea and it hasn't worked, it would be useful to post that too.
Well, my "job" is a high school, so ...
Still, I must admit it hadn't occurred to me to simply change the software and ignore the symbols on the hardware. I had always encountered alternate keyboard layouts in the context of purchasing physical keyboards, for some reason.
Yeah, I'd find the school IT guy and ask about non-qwerty keyboard layouts. You can try get that set up on your school account. If that's not possible because they lock down everything, then go ahead and learn to touch-type on qwerty (in addition to either Colemak or Dvorak).
The thing with being in middle school or high school is that you have a lot more ability than children, and a lot more time than adults. It's the perfect place to spend some time learning to touch-type, or make chainmail, or practice doing return-on-investment and value-of-information calculations, or whatever.