high school was a very rough time for me for reasons I won't go into here. I dropped out of my public high school, then enrolled in an alternative high school where I goofed off a fair amount. I started writing and had things published early, but just felt like an oddball. In college and grad school, things were better to some extent. I attended a Seven Sisters college and an Ivy for grad. I was shocked they took me because I basically never attended high school. I got A's without exerting myself in college and grad school. Perhaps I selected majors that weren't challenging enough for me or just never knew how to work through challenging material. I never felt dimininished as a female or tried to high my mind in school but I was in an alternative school where I worked at my own pace and also went to Wellesley for undergrad.
