Yeesh, I complain enough about getting up @ 6:30. Then again, I cut my teeth in the other side of the publishing world where moseying in @ 10am was considered brown-nosing...
Ah, a late riser. When I was teaching (in my previous incarnation), I was up at 5:00. Now, in retirement, the cat wakes me at 4:30 but I try to ignore him until 6:00.
A sign of old age: 6 AM is when you you get up instead of when you go to bed.
7th grade... I think that was the year I took my first PSATs and Algebra -- definitely a tough one. What helped was when my dad brought home a new Mac IIcx! Moral of the story: a new Mac solves everything. Good luck!