What It Was Like Attending One of the Best Private Schools in America
And How ‘A Life of Productivity’ Dug Me Out of My Pit of Self-Destructiveness
4 min readSep 16, 2019
When I dropped out of U.C. Berkeley in my junior year, a semester of rest was a long time in coming. I had burned out in my junior year of high school at the prestigious and grueling Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter is…