Originally Posted by kcab
I believe that practice at picking myself back up after academic non-perfection *much* earlier in my schooling would have been better for me, but of course I don't know.

I went for the actual academic destruction approach rather than mere avoidance. Although it was more of a college GPA perfection issue more than anything else. After all, once you were no longer able to get a 4.0 did anything even matter anymore?

By the end of undergrad, I had basically given up on life.

Fortunately, I was able to get tons of loans for law school!