Been there, done that. I remember sitting in a database class an being excited that we were covering a topic I didn&#x27;t know - normalization. Then I realized that I had already learned it through experience at work, I just didn&#x27;t have a name for it. I just thought I was taking a crappy schema and turning it into something I&#x27;d like to use. I knew that there are times denormalization can be good in the right places, but I wouldn&#x27;t have known what to call it.<p>I learned stuff in school, just not often and it wasn&#x27;t due to HN - I didn&#x27;t have that option back then. I had a few great classes - some with only a dozen people and great professors. A shout out to other people 12 people who might remember - &quot;Horses are pretty&quot;.