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Don’t Peak in High School
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girls ask me for advice about whatthey should be doing if they want a career like mine one day.There are basically two ways to get where I am: (1) learn a pro- vocative dance and put it on YouTube; (2) convince your parentsto move to Orlando and homeschool you until you get cast on a kids’ show,
or
do what I did, which is (3) stay in school and be a respectful and hardworking wallflower, and go to an accreditednon-online university.Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popularin high school, or being the best actress in high school, or thebest athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that thesecond you graduate, but when you get older, if you referenceyour successes in high school too much, it actually makes youlook kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williamscharacter with nothing else going on in her current life. WhatI’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in highschool is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s sowonderfully
fair.
I was never the lead in the play. I don’t think I went to a singleparty with alcohol at it. No one offered me pot. It wasn’t until Iwas sixteen that I even knew marijuana and pot were the samething. I didn’t even learn this from a cool friend; I gleaned it
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling - Excerpt
Comedy's fastest-rising star takes to the page in a book of essays, personal anecdotes, and impassioned pleas.
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