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One thing I’ve lied about:

Ohio has (or at least, had in the late ’90s, who knows with budget cuts these days) a program called PSEOP, wherein if you’re a public high school student and you can get accepted at a public university, the state will pick up the tab, and the credits you get there count towards HS graduation.

So that’s the backstory. I got accepted to Ohio State in 1997 as a HS junior, and I placed into calculus. The school I went to was a typically jocky school (which was hilarious because our sports teams universally sucked when I was there), so I was a bit ashamed by my gifts. For most of my first year at Ohio State, nobody knew I was still in high school.

Senior year, I took honors physics and started the same thing, until the professor called me into his office one day and constructively chewed me out for lying, though he never called me on it publicly. I never made a big deal about “not being in high school,” so I was able to slowly drop the lie.

I still appreciate Dr. Mainland for that.