Better late than never: High School advice from Mindy Kaling

The Office's Mindy Kaling will publish her first book - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) - this fall. Here's some insightful advice on how to survive high school from an excerpt available here:

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quiet, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up. So many people I work with—famous actors, accomplished writers—were overlooked in high school. Be like Allan Pearl (Eugene Levy’s character in Waiting for Guffman). Sit next to the class clown and study him. Then grow up, take everything you learn, and get paid to be a real-life clown, unlike whatever unexciting thing the actual high school class clown is doing now. I think our class clown is doing marketing in Warwick, Connecticut.