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I think we had extremely similar childhoods! I too spent much of my free time tinkering with old Apple PCs - I started programming in QuickBASIC in the 5th gra

by ngoel36 11y ago

I think we had extremely similar childhoods! I too spent much of my free time tinkering with old Apple PCs - I started programming in QuickBASIC in the 5th grade because of it, and I owe my career today at a major tech startup to that. I also empathize with the transition in high school - I always found history class to be a relative struggle due to the change from repetitive memorization to actual understanding/notes.

yareally 11y ago
My biggest struggle was math for the same reasons. I had a lot of teachers that emphasized the memorization aspect of it. Thankfully, my math teachers got progressively better throughout my high school years or I'm not sure I would have made it through calculus at the university. I probably would have struggled through history if I hadn't had an abnormal interest in subject. Two of my favorite things to read when I was bored were encyclopedias and reading ahead in my school history book. Guessing that probably helped me with lessening the struggle of memorizing history facts.