Amanda Spake:  

Interesting to see that people from high school remember me as "ambitious." I probably would not have thought that at the time. I remember myself in high school as painfully self-conscious, the quintessential outside observer, seldom comfortable, but that all worked out just fine. After graduating from the University of Califonria, Irvine, I moved to Washington, DC to work for the US Student Press Association for a year, and then on to various jobs as a writer and editor for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Mother Jones, MS Magazine, Self Magazine, Health Magazine, then settled in for some length stays at the Washington Post, and finally U.S. News and World Report. Sadly, journalism is prett...Expand for more