5 Truths I Should Have Learned in High School. And Totally Did Not.

  I learned trigonometry in high school (OK, barely) and dissected a (bulbous, slightly glazed over, am still slightly traumatized) frog's eye.  I learned how to make quiche in Grade 10 Foods class and I know how to tell you in French that your car has run over my foot. But no one ever taught me basic law, economics, or common sense.  I think a third period class on how to whip up a killer spreadsheet and how to gently manhandle an overly demanding boss would have been so much more relevant than say...obscure chemistry or pottery class.  But there's no school of common sense, nor any shortcuts on the road to the most spe... [More]