President Obama made a surprise visit to a White House question and answer session with student journalists Thursday, and told his young audience that he was a “slacker” in high school.

“I can tell you guys were high-achieving, Type A folks,” Obama said to the university students Thursday. “Unlike the kind of slacker kid that I was.”

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