Note 1 June 17, 2025 I was 17 when I failed school for the very first time. I was in the 11th grade and if I’d continued at that school, I’d have failed in 12th, which is a whole lot worse, apparently. I was studying at the Oxford Senior Secondary School (CBSE), and I’d done poorly on all my subjects that year. Primarily, Biotechnology, which was promised to be the “great big thing” that decade. I scoff at that now, and I hated the subject and the teacher.