I feel like it was almost exactly as hard as I expected but you realize the first few years just how many little things can be thrown your way that you never thought of.
Do you find all of your polls super biased based on gender? It always looks like way more men respond than women. Do you get enough data to make the categorical data significant?
Growing up where I did...everyone I knew worked harder (farm, ranch, forestry jobs) as kids than they have as adults (it made us all want to go to college).
We couldn't wait for school to start again.
Kids would join the wrestling team rather than go home and milk/feed cows.