If you think graduating from an Ivy League school is difficult, imagine doing it with straight A’s.

Last spring, Brittney Lane, 22, accomplished this daunting task by graduating from Harvard with a perfect 4.0 – a feat that has only been achieved six times since the Ivy League university computerized its records in 1982.

Thanks to her four years of intensive studying, Brittney now holds a highly prestigious job at Blockbuster Video – until she gets into law school.

The FresnoBee reports:

Of her Harvard straight A's, Lane said: "It didn't seem very real at first."

 

Lane said her quest for the perfect report card began in her freshman year after she aced a difficult music studies paper and realized "I can do this." While playing Trivial Pursuit with a group of male dorm friends, she mentioned her goal.

 

"They basically said, 'You're out of your mind. Don't even try it,' “Lane said.

 

They also told her as a woman, it would be especially hard.

Wait – why would gender matter? Does the lack of a Y-chromosome make women incapable of perfection?

Doubt it.

The only thing that should matter is the mental welfare of the individual attempting such a task, because a person with such a thirst for self-inflicted pain is either mentally unsound or a superhuman living amongst a sea of slacking mere mortals.
 

Yeah -- definitely the latter.