Monday, July 2, 2007

High School

I graduated from high school in 1960. Honestly, I didn't like high school. I didn't have any really inspirational teachers and I certainly wasn't a student in any academic sense of the word. I think my grade point average for high school was probably about 2.0; about a C. I had no clear or consistent idea about what I wanted to do after high school. High school was pretty much "someone else's boat." I got on as a sophomore; took the long, boring ride until the end of my senior year and then got off. I went to school to see my friends, especially my girl friend. The last thing I cared about were my grades.

Today, 2 July 2007, I applied for a part-time, non-academic job. One of the items on the application for the job was a request for my high school grade point average. I took a guess and wrote, "C." Who would have thought that something so irrelevant to my life would matter to anyone after all these years?

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