I "skipped" both kindergarten and seventh grade. The kids in eighth grade gave me a pretty hard time. Actually, they were hateful and mean, but I'm not bitter. I would not have survived high school intact, so it was lucky that my parents heard about this program at Mary Baldwin College...

They had a special program for gifted girls called the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted, or PEG for short. I was a PEG, we were PEGs. Amazing how silly it sounds now! At any rate, this program allows girls to attend college after the eighth grade. After four years I graduated in the normal way, only a few years younger than most.

I used to think this was a great, in fact superior, way to go. These days I am not so sure. If I had known then what I know now, I think I would have tried to convince my parents to send me to a really rigorous prep school.