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Intelligence

Mar 8th, 2020
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  1. “Look, I know you’re smart,” Gardner went on. “You already had more than half a college degree in your pocket when you were a senior in high school.”
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  3. “Yeah, and I never finished senior year, did I?”
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  5. “Not because you couldn’t have. Hell, you would’ve been the valedictorian!”
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  7. “Salutatorian,” Jake corrected him. “That math team girl would’ve edged me out by a few percentage points. But it didn’t matter. By graduation I’d already enlisted, to get out of trouble with the law. Your idea, as I recall.”
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  9. “And you got your GED and your bachelor’s degree before you got out. That took a lot of work, as well as playing the system for all it’s worth.”
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  11. - Chapter 3
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