Packy McCormick: preference

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…Because for most kids, that's punishment. For me, if I have to write as much as you write, I couldn't do it. There's no way. I did cross country and track in high school too. That was kind of a similar vibe where for most people that's punishment making them run many miles, and I love that. But Mr. [...], you'd have to write a composition. I would love to do it because I would try to write a composition that was so funny that Mr. [...] would let me read it in front of the class. In high school, I would try to write essays that were a combination of very well-done, well-researched, and all that, but funny. Even my most serious teachers would have to laugh and give me a good grade, despite the fact that I turned them into a joke. So I think, always, a combination of the class clown with the backing of serious research. It's pretty rare to find those two combinations together in one person—somebody who is both the class clown and has a work ethic.…

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