But even she would have to admit that I was never boring.

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As a fluent English speaker in a country where that is decidedly not the norm, I was dreading a boring lesson.

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Over the past two years, whenever I'd enquired about a Uranus picture, I was always told that it would be a pretty "boring blob of light", with little to commend it.

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"Being involved in that and ... getting to understand the city made me realize that the impact I could make here was so much greater than at a boring real estate economic research firm back home, " the 23-year-old said.

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