I'm very curious to know if anyone here feels an obsessive urge to be an overachiever? I do. I want to go to only the best schools, the número uno institutes like MIT and Caltech and Harvard. I want to win every competition or project I can get my hands on. This obsessiveness is the very reason why I tried so hard to get into my current high school...these days I suddenly felt that this thing is eerily similar to my autistic interests, which, as most of you know, they for unknown reasons have to be pursued ferociously. And please don't tell me it's an Asian thing. I know that the average Asian wouldn't be this obsessed. 
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Will be off the internet for some time. I'm challenging myself to stop any unnecessary Internet activity. Just to let you know...