Exam Bootcamp Turned Me Into a Machine
To give me an edge on my college entrance exam, my parents spend a fortune on a lifelike "study buddy" robot.
The day the robot walks through the door, every hobby I have gets the axe. Dad calls my screen time a waste of my life, and Mom decides I can't even eat as efficiently as the robot.
My twin brother, Charlie Hartman, piles on, "What do you even do besides drag this family down?"
I snap and yank out the robot's charging cable.
Mom loses it, grabs me by the hair, and slaps me across the face. "That robot is your role model. If you had half its discipline, I wouldn't be getting called into school by your teachers every other day!
"Get yourself to that military boarding academy and l