Nathan Barry

And we'd get 98th in one thing and 99th in another, all that.

I'm like, sweet, we're good.

It wasn't until later I realized what that actually means.

And that means that you've scored higher than 95% or 98% of all the kids who took that.

It's just that's the way that my mom anchored it.

Had I fully understood it, I would have been like, mom, that's an insanely high bar.

Basically, everyone always had this idea of like, oh, you're getting an inferior education was a common thing.

And so she counteracted that by saying, you're going to learn so well that you're at the top of your game.

Yeah.

So that was our check-in to standardized school.

But yeah, college was the first time in an outside classroom and all that.

I also showed up when I was 15.

That must have been tough.

One funny thing is a friend of mine who had also been homeschooled and she was a couple years older, she had started college when she was 16.

And she gave me some advice on to never answer the question of how old you are because everyone will immediately treat you differently.

But to not lie about it.

And so her method, which I adopted, is when someone would come up, because you'd be sitting in math class, and they'd be like, how old are you?

And instead of saying, oh, I'm 15, I would say, guess.

And they'd look at me and be like, okay, well, he looks 15, but he's in a college freshman class, which would make him 18.

So 17?