Put on your beginner hat! - by Joss - box.
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We can be anything and everything we want to be, but only if we do it together.
At my high school, I interacted with two dominant groups: the ones who were obviously on the “pre-University of Waterloo Computer Science” track, and the “Leadership kids”. The kids who were shooting for Waterloo had been on a grindset their entire lives — math competitions, building robots, winning hackathons in their spare time — things the leadership kids could not even fathom wanting to spend time on. The leadership kids were playing a different game — orchestrating events, participating in business competitions, founding youth organizations, playing sports, running for student council…
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