Experienced plenty of bullying, some of it pretty horrible. But the moment that enraged me most? It involved a teacher. At age 13, we had a student internship project going. We would stay for 3 weeks at an actual company, getting a first small taste of the business world - and at the end we had to file a report on what we did/learned. I did that internship at a high-tech fluid mechanics lab two blocks from my home. They took me to all kinds of cool places. We looked at the inside of the cooling system of a nuclear plant, visited huge off-limits underground drinking water resevoirs for taking temperature readings, I was asked to gather results from simulations of fluid pressure/dynamics on a huge mainframe... in short, I was having a blast. Needless to say, I was really hyped at the end and spent a lot of effort on putting together the activity report. The result was pretty cool, if I say so myself. It had fotos, self-made diagrams and graphics, small material samples... it reflected all my excitement. I handed it in... and later got a 2 minus. (B minus for those US citizens around). When I was asking the teacher why nothing better, he said: "Oh come on, you're not trying to tell me you created all that alone, are you?" Yet that is exactly what had happened. I did compile every single bit of it alone, as impressive as it looked. Every diagram, every graphic. And I said so. He just laughed and ignored me.
