Most of Peter’s college friends come from Harvard, Oxford, and other more formal institutions—I’d always been led to believe that this made them better than me and my experiences. Their skills and accomplishments are easy to describe: they’ve traveled the world on scholarships, taught at Ivy League schools, won awards, and been in the news for the right reasons. They’re also about seven years older than I am, so the success disparity makes some sense, but at first, it felt like they all came from Planet Genius.
