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And the ten minutes striking up a conversation with that strange kid in homeroom sometimes matters more than every other part of high school combined.
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11th-grade activities:
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Usefulness to career success
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900 hours of classes
400 hours of homework
One weekend messing with Perl
Bah!!! Beginners numbers...
I'll have you know I barely passed typing class on one of those IBM ball electric typewriters at 31wpm.
On the IBM computers with word perfect 5.1 from the 5.25' floppy. I was much faster... 32wpm.
Then I got ulnar nerve damage from a terrible bicycle accident in Europe aka.. I fell off.. and now I average 20wpm.