But I think that contradiction can be reconciled and is in fact instructive.
Achievement is wonderful when you know why you’re doing it.
And when you don’t know, it can be a terrible trap.
I went to a public high school on Long Island, Syosset High School.
Ooh, hello, Syosset!
The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair.
And they spoke with an accent I who had moved there at age 9 from Connecticut mimicked to fit in - Florida Oranges, Chocolate cherries.
Since I ’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school, people didn’t really pay that much attention to the fact that I was an actress.
I was known mainly at school for having a backpack bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my notebooks.
I was voted for my senior yearbook “most likely to be a contestant on Jeopardy” or code for nerdiest.