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[[Bar graph title: Usefulness to career success]]
900 hours of classes [[small bar]]
400 hours of homework [[small bar]]
One weekend messing with Perl [[huge bar]]
{{title text: And the ten minutes striking up a conversation with that strange kid in homeroom sometimes matters more than every other part of high school combined.}}
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