High school *is* the real world…

…it’s just not the whole world.
But anybody who spends any time in the blogosphere – or worse yet, in the fetid fever swamps of MySpace, LiveJournal, etc – should be able to grasp a fundamental truth very quickly: given access to a high-speed link to all the world’s information and a global audience, human beings immediately revert to age 14.
This is why, in retrospect, all the people who told me not to sweat high school, or college, or whatever, because things would be better in the real world? They were mistaken. Badly…