I avoided school. Although in that era we called it "skipping school". We mostly went into the woods and smoked pot, fooled around with our boyfriends and girl

I avoided school. Although in that era we called it "skipping school". We mostly went into the woods and smoked pot, fooled around with our boyfriends and girlfriends, and went for fast food burgers. I barely graduated high school, but went on to get a BS in electrical engineering and managed to have a reasonably productive life. Modern kids are under a constant microscope. No wonder they're anxious. Although it's 1/2 their own fault for the amount of time they spend lost in their own minds (people call it "on the phone", but it's really just an electronically enhanced form of "lost in inner space"). The other 1/2 is their parents, who are stiflingly overberaring. When we walked out of the house, no one knew where the hell we went. The effect of loosing this sense of individual freedom is MASSIVELY underappreciated...