The first semester of my graduate program one of the students committed suicide. The grad program itself was pretty high pressure, but obviously there were many other things going wrong in his life.

I often wonder what I would be like without having gone through that program. I don't necessarily think it took a piece of my soul, but it did shape me for certain. Personally I think the bigger chunk of wasted time was between ages 5 and 15 sitting at a desk.

It's interesting to hear you said you goofed off a lot in college. It doesn't sound like the Jimmy I've seen in Bitcoin. Were you partying at the time or just spending time on non-academic hobbies?