So, fun true story: freshman year I took intro to programming. That professor nearly drove me to tears and convinced me I was too stupid to learn to program. In an intro class.

Eighteen years later, I am a self-taught developer, but it took more than ten years to even start to shrug off the "you're too stupid to learn."

(My university also had so few writing classes for non-majors and even the ones for writing majors were bad. There Is No Genre Only Literary Fiction is a concept that can die in an acid fire, thanks.)