ShootingStar wrote:

he seems to be even more obsessed with being a reggae DJ which I have always found to be just stupid and ridiculous and I was hoping he was going to pursue his academics more.

Haha, that reminds me of my friend T from high school. T was a preppy, brilliant kid, straight A student, and gay which is why some kids picked on him a lot. I felt protective of him because he was also a very sweet guy, one of the most genuinely nice people you rarely meet in the territorial waters of freshman year in high school. Freshman year was rough on him, his parents divorced and T came out...so his dad disowned him and kicked him out of the house. T was homeless for a time and next time I saw him....My God, he was so incredibly stinky lol. He rarely showered and he would walk into class smelling like weed. He's a white kid and he had the most humongous  dreadlocks I've ever seen, it was like a giant tarantula alien landed from outer space and chose to harvest its eggs on his head lol. And he wore nothing but Bob Marley T-shirts and reggae stuff, I couldn't believe it. Anyway, he never did his homework and his GPA was terrible, every time he came to class he was high on weed and his eyes were redder than the Red Sea. But he was brilliant, he still got a perfect score on the ACT exams, and although he never went to college, he got his act together and now makes a lot of money as a software developer or software engineer. The thought of him in those dreadlocks and all that reggae/Bob Marley gear still cracks me up though haha.