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Neither? He was a once-accelerated senior last year, and applied to colleges and graduated like every other senior. Now he’s taking a gap year to continue a cool internship and grow up a year.</p>
<p>He’s laid-back and adultish and helpful like your son, but procrastinates and does his homework at the last minute, and when he’s reading (constantly) it’s usually geek stuff, and he is fairly socially awkward.</p>
<p>I think your paragraph describing your son sounds like a Mudder - they aren’t all the same. And it’s my uninformed opinion that “party hard” doesn’t exactly mean the same thing at Mudd and Caltech as it does elsewhere. My guess is that, while there is drinking and even drinking to excess, most of them don’t drink to excess most of the time. And that the construction of the machine to help you drink is just as much fun as the drinking itself.</p>