I was both a jock and a nerd in high school; neither G-d nor man. Panama. Oddly enough, I did not identify with any one group in particular. I was smarter than all of the nerds; and I did not wish to associate with their snarky cliques; some of them pretended to be smart for the purposes of prestige, and pretended to know that which they did not know; no one was smart enough to realize this, except for me. I was rejected from the nerd clique even though we took AP classes together.

I never tri...