Re:Proof You Can Do Hard Things
by lqet on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:29AM
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> At school I coasted, ignored all home work, never studied, and was a consistent C. I was continually told I could fo better by putting in some work (an objective viewpoint I agreed with.)
That was me 100%. I passed elementary school with flying colors without ever studying anything or doing any homework or actively participating in class (I had better things do to: reading comics and building LEGO contraptions) and simply continued this approach in highschool, with much, much less success. But neither did I care nor did I have any time for studying or doing homework - I taught myself programming in Batch and BASIC in the early 90ies from the MS-DOS manpages, and later, when we had access to the internet, Delfi, Visual Basic and C++. I had finished a small tool with a few 100 users when I was 13, and I had to take care of them and fix bugs. There simply wasn't time left for any school work. University was a natural extension of this childhood interest into adulthood, and I went through it until a PhD.
That was me 100%. I passed elementary school with flying colors without ever studying anything or doing any homework or actively participating in class (I had better things do to: reading comics and building LEGO contraptions) and simply continued this approach in highschool, with much, much less success. But neither did I care nor did I have any time for studying or doing homework - I taught myself programming in Batch and BASIC in the early 90ies from the MS-DOS manpages, and later, when we had access to the internet, Delfi, Visual Basic and C++. I had finished a small tool with a few 100 users when I was 13, and I had to take care of them and fix bugs. There simply wasn't time left for any school work. University was a natural extension of this childhood interest into adulthood, and I went through it until a PhD.