“High school feels a lot slower than it is, but trust me: It’ll all be worth it when you’re at college—whether that be Yale, or Stanford, or NYU, it doesn’t matter.” Mom always loves to stress the fact that the college I go to doesn’t matter—but why would she and Dad send me to private schools all my life, get me the best of everything, and then expect me to give them mediocrity in return? “And college is way more fun, less stressful; flies by like that.” She snaps her fingers. People are always telling me this about college, that it’ll be better than high school. Given the way the last three
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