Metaphors for Madness and Mania  ...
Channel: tenderparts
Date: 2012-02-12

The high performance vehicle fleshed out to explain my experience of ADD. I actually should have been more careful about boasting that "I graduated at the top of my class". I really should have been a bit more cautious about how I made that boast; it all ran together. I was valedictorian of my high school class — that was when I was "top of my class" (and it didn't last once I had to do external exams that required me to study because they covered two years of materials). I did graduate with honours from Cornell, which at that time I think meant a cumulative GPA of B+ = (3.3) or above. That's actually not that great an achievement (well, for me it certainly was). There is a lot of room above that in university for outstanding achievement.