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On Thu, 22 Aug 1996 11:37:09 -0500, you wrote:

>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.

Too many things we all share to miss the fact that there are kids
today going through the same things. 

I didnt wait for college. Blew out of all order and discipline in the
early years of high school, after being popped into some supposedly
"advanced" studies in elementary and Jr High.

Getting geeked is no great reward. Just made me more antisocial. :)

Like you, I was learning my profession "on the side" (and I should
add, by the patience and help of a gentleman who God was surely using
for that purpose), while failing at *everything* on the surface.

-mwb