The first time I held my nephew in my arms, I was thirteen years old. Until then, I had never met such a tiny human being. I had never met someone so blissfully unaware of their surroundings. He did not know that his father would have to work through every available overtime shift just to raise him, or that I would have to pay for my notebooks in coins and landscape nearly every yard in the neighborhood to buy his...

I have a unique circumstance in that I was able to study astrophysics and quantum theory during my time in high school. If you are not able to do that, that is completely okay. Trust me. Just find something unique that you are interested in and study that on your own. Try to find a mentor to guide you. It is gold in the long run.

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