At first I thought, who on earth would do that?  Sure, some people do but how could it me that many.  I started to think that I was one of the 10% then actually realized that wasn’t true.  Let me confess, here and now, I often copied other people’s math homework right before class.

          Shameful, I know.

          To defend myself a little, the ironic part was I always did well on the test.  The person who I cheated off of for homework, cheated off me for test.  Plus, I never cheated in college.  That degree is one hundred percent mine.  I think that was maybe the big difference for me.  High school was something that you absolutely had to do.  College was a choice I made so I felt a drive to do it well. 

          Another thing this book has made me think about so far is where I fitted in on the Overachiever vs Slacker scale while I was in school.  My high school was definately very different than the one described in the book.  The first school I went to consisted of a large numbr of kids that knew they would go to college at BYU, go on a mission, or get married right away.  As a freshman, I took AP classes but the stress of high grades didn’t come through yet.

          The last three years I attended a fairly small high school.  I think there was maybe 200 people tops in my graduating class.  Because the school was small, there was not a huge range of classes.  There was only a handful of AP classes.  I think I took the only science one available and all the english ones.  Grade wise I got mostly A’s.  A few B’s and gasp, a C in advance math which I dropped the following semester.  On my SATs I got 1280 (I have no clue how I actually remember that since I never actually needed it since I transfered into college).  I was editor of the school news paper and on dance team.  I also had a part time job.  Wow, I honestly never realized how much I did until I wrote it down just now.  I definately felt like I floated through school.  Looking back, I guess I was an overachiever.

          College I think I was an overahiever in some places but not in others.  I got nearly straight As.  My GPA would have been better if there wasn’t a huge problem with being in the wrong math class.  Two seperate advisors put me in a particular class. I strugged to no end.  I ended up failing once and dropping out half way a second time.  The third time I talked to someone I found out that all along I was in a class meant for engineering majors, not english.  I was extremely mad but at least aced the real class I needed.  Spanish was the other class I slipped down to a B a few semesters. Besides that I worked my ass off to me the top of all my classes. 

          Were you an overachiever in school?  Did you ever cheat?