While high school can be a social learning experience (an awkward one), the outcome of it may not be entirely positive. In high school, I learned how to smoke,

While high school can be a social learning experience (an awkward one), the outcome of it may not be entirely positive. In high school, I learned how to smoke, drink, fight, cheat and steal. I almost gave up programming as a hobby because it was weird in the eyes of my peers. I narrowly escaped a life of crime by moving to a different city as soon as I was old enough. Man, I'm happy to be out of that shit and out of that neighborhood. And almost out of school (finishing my masters').