>>9782033>Wait you're 16?I was at this age when the first one happened near the start of high school (there's the fundamental 1 and 2 schools and then the 3 last years are the "high school"), 17 when the second one happened, currently 21.
>Do american grades matter at all?Idk I just see borger threads all over the place in this board and didn't want to put with the "speak freedom" shit, so i used movie letter grading, which now that I think abt, is retarded in it's own rights
>In Europe no one cares abut your grades, only SAT matters.Same in brazil, but my father is a complete nutcase and one of those student hating college professors that deserve to be burnt alive, so, high grades is/were a must.
> the first time in my life I started studying just to go to UNIMost of the time the punishment for not being perfect wasn't so harsh (arguable, 1 month of no essential technology [modern phones, wifi, tv, vidya, etc] for each grade below 9, so I just lived off with it. I didn't even study for my SAT. I got in comp sci anyway
>>9782039No, but his close family was knees deep in the regional department of the dictatorship, so this might have something to do with this.