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Maria Konnikova
Aug 14, 2025
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Last week, I was reminded of a period in my life that I haven’t thought about in years. In eighth grade, when I was all of twelve years old, I took our high school’s AP French class. What this meant in practice was that every school day, I would walk the hill from my junior high to the huge, altogether foreign high school to sit in a classroom of sevent…

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