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As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.