Stuck in my head

“There are so many opportunities in this world!” they say. But yet, we young people get to learn so much of nothingness.

When I graduated high school, I was exceptional in the studies of derivatives. My professor could wake me up in the middle of the night to make me prove the quotient rule, and I would have done it without hesitation.

At that time in my life, I felt superior. What could go wrong? I knew everything I had to know within the school system and was at the top of my class.