Right, speaking for myself, my parents were REALLY involved (they were both teachers themselves), so even though I attended a lackluster public high school in r

Right, speaking for myself, my parents were REALLY involved (they were both teachers themselves), so even though I attended a lackluster public high school in rural Pennsylvania, I ended up doing pretty well, going onto a top 20 university and becoming a software engineer in Silicon Valley. I also loved learning and computers though, so I learned a lot on my own just by tinkering in my spare time for fun.