Yes, one of the key insights needed to pass modern education in the US is to suck it up and do the drudge work. On the flip side, that's not a useless thing to

Yes, one of the key insights needed to pass modern education in the US is to suck it up and do the drudge work. On the flip side, that's not a useless thing to learn - about 10-25% or so of my "Professional life" is some form of drudge work. So I did need to learn to suck it up. Whenever I really felt like "too smart for school", I remembered the manual labor I had done in summers prior and that helped put some steel in my spine.