NOBODY REMEMBERS YEAR 12 COOL.

Run this experiment before you read another word. Find any adult who finished school five or more years ago and ask them to name the most popular kid in their year. Time the pause. Watch the shrug when the answer finally limps out.

Now hold that image next to the fact that you are currently spending real energy, in the two most expensive years of your academic life, on the exact currency that adult just shrugged at.

This lesson is about the expiry date nobody mentions, the tax you're paying to an audience that's already packing up, and why the worst insult in the schoolyard is actually a compliment with the dates mixed up.