I used to play Cello (was first chair, also )

I've been playing piano since....I was six? I play competitive classical so I'm constantly entering contests and whatnots (heck, I'm auditioning tomorrow). My teacher is one of those old-fashioned, everything-must-be-perfect, practice-three-times-perfect-in-a-row-backwards, metronome, play-with-CD kind of person...It gets to the point of overkill, but it's trained me to become much better than my friends who have played for the equal amount of time. Which reminds me...I have to practice