I had an absolutely amazing principal in H.S. She took notice of me and made it her mission to make sure I wasn't bored to the point I would quit. Some of my te

I had an absolutely amazing principal in H.S. She took notice of me and made it her mission to make sure I wasn't bored to the point I would quit. Some of my teachers did too, while others told me to just quit. I would get excellent marks in math and science related subjects, but fail everything else. I would complain the only thing different between sophomore, junior and senior English was the color of the book and one had to write a term paper their junior year. So I slept. A lot. I'd stay up late on my Commodore programming and be exhausted the next day. I remember waking up in my second year accounting class one day to the teacher telling some students, "When your scores are as high as his in my class, you can sleep too." I actually felt bad because I learned that day I was bothering other students. Not enough to change though. I was stubborn.