>One reason I haven't heard yet is that the work gets harder. This happened to me after breezing through a Top 100 US high school [sober] and then sleeping thr

>One reason I haven't heard yet is that the work gets harder. This happened to me after breezing through a Top 100 US high school [sober] and then sleeping through most of my Top 20 US private undergrad [full scholarship, not sober]. Graduate school... >This can be a shock. People react in different ways, and one reaction is to not try. I left medical school in awe of money never being able to compensate for the sacrifices made matriculating into [let alone completing] such rigorous studies. Had fun, was shocked, fifteen years later I still read a lot...