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>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Masoner <richardm@cd.com> writes:

    Richard> I was the guy that everyone else was sick of: never
    Richard> studied but aced everything anyway.  I spent my
    Richard> after-school hours in band practice or running track or
    Richard> playing role-playing games or typing computer games from
    Richard> _COMPUTE!_ magazine into my friend's Atari 800
    Richard> computer. So I get to college with absolutely *no* study
    Richard> skills or discipline and I actually *flunk* several
    Richard> classes.  How humiliating.

I did the same thing, only worse: I flunked out of Duke my freshman
year in 1970!  It was really all the computer's fault: I would compute
all night when the turnaround time was faster, and then sleep all day.
I learned my profession that year, but I got no credit at all for it.
Of course, drugs in vast excess and parties, etc. didn't help the
situation too much either, but that's all under the blood now.

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