I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I’m sorry, you have to take driver’s ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

The remark frames schooling as a bureaucratic obstacle course rather than a meaningful intellectual journey. Apple describes accelerating through academic requirements—finishing “all my work” in two months—only to be blocked by a non-academic mandate (driver’s education). Her punchline (“Oh, forget it”) signals a refusal to comply with institutional box-checking when it feels arbitrary or misaligned with her priorities. Read biographically, it echoes a familiar narrative around prodigious or nonconforming artists: high capability within the system, paired with impatience for its rituals and a willingness to exit rather than negotiate. The quote’s humor sharpens its critique of how institutions can derail achievement through inflexible requirements.