<p>"
Rule 1: Life is not fair…get used to it. </p>
<p>Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect
you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. </p>
<p>Rule 3: You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high
school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone, until you earn
both. </p>
<p>Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He
doesn’t have tenure. </p>
<p>Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents
had a different word for burger flipping-they called it opportunity. </p>
<p>Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about
your mistakes, learn from them. </p>
<p>Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are
now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and
listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain
forest from the parasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing the
closet in your own room.</p>
<p>Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life
has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll
give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t
bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. </p>
<p>Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and
very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. You have
to do that on your own time. </p>
<p>Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to
leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. </p>
<p>I was thinking more that he would advise them to be born into a wealthy family
attend a fancy prep school
get accepted to prestigous college and drop out</p>
<p>Whether Gates said those things, or did not, I think it’s beside the point. Many high school students have high hopes and no real experience. Even so, when it comes time to start earning a living and living on your own, you either swim, or sink back into mom and dad’s house until you buck up. All of that “find your passion” stuff is great during college, but afterwards, I personally think parents shouldn’t be relied on anymore, besides help with a down payment on a house</p>
<p>why should they help with a down payment on a house- isn’t that about the time parents should be planning for thier own retirement if they aren’t retired already?</p>
<ol>
<li><p>If at first you don’t succeed, try doing the same thing all over again only just a little differently.</p></li>
<li><p>Keeping your hair groomed is for losers.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Thats not Gates but its good advice. The best ones are </p>
<p>Rule 1: Life is not fair…get used to it. </p>
<p>Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect
you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself</p>
<p>Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life
has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll
give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t
bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.</p>
<p>emeraldcity, you took the words right out of my mouth. Lakeside is a wonderful school, roughly three times the cost of the UW, if they’ll take you.</p>
<p>Lakeside is a good school- very big on community service- but still competitive not just for admission but in atmosphere-
its probably good for some kids- who need to be reminded they aren’t the only bigdog- but not everyone-
Lakeside also has good finaid- not only grants, but they subsidize their own loans.
Several of my younger daughters soccer team mates have attended Lakeside- a couple transferred to Northwest for high school- and a couple of my older daughters friends have attended- they either transferred to her sisters public school Garfield, or they entered the EEP program at UW.
Still is a nice school though- I wonder if they still have thier summer chamber music concerts?</p>
<p>What soccer program are your kids involved with? I noticed you referenced Garfield HS several times. That school certainly has gone through many phases over the decades. I think last year they had 29 vals, an outstanding result and got blasted for it. Personally, I thought it was great.</p>
<p>last year I think they actually had 44- didn’t hear what happened this year-
The thing is- anyone who has straight As is eligible- and since classes aren’t weighted, you could have a 4.00 with BC Calc or INT math.
I don’t have a problem with it either- the way I see it- if you earned straight As in classes that were appropriate for you- then shouldn’t you be recognized for that?
I don’t think that many students are going to take easy classes just to raise their GPA, because if they are really that competitive, they will be applying to competitive colleges, and the colleges will see the course descriptions. It isn’t going to serve them very well if they take regular 10th grade history, when their peers are taking AP Euro history.</p>
<p>My mother attended Garfield(‘53’) and my younger daughter currently attends.
She is involved in a recreational city league team that she has been on coming up for 6 years? It is a great team- with fantastic volunteer coaches.
She did play soccer in middle school on the team as well- but we were told that the soccer team at Garfield was very competitve, so she didn’t try out.</p>
<p>She is thinking of joining the cross country team in Garfield- she joined the track team freshman and soph year- I highly recommend joining something at school- and the sport teams gave her a chance to meet kids that she wouldn’t otherwise ( different grades)</p>
<p>So that would be * my advice* to high school students- join a team or a club. My D andf her friends- finally took that advice 2nd semester of freshman year & they all joined a team and it helped them I think coming from a very small school to one that was almost 1700</p>
<p>My older daughter didn’t play soccer- she is not as athletic as her sister, although she did used to ride horses & she rides her bike for transportation. I finally talked her into joining the track team when she was a senior- and while she liked her coach and her teammates- it just wasnt her sport. ( she went to SAAS- just over the hill from Garfield)</p>
<p>I do like some of the advice that was attributed to Gates- but I really don’t think he originated it.
FOr my older daughters high school graduation, her advisor gave the commencement speech and it was beautiful.</p>
<p>This is one tough lady- she has been fighting breast cancer and while she had a year of chemo- she continued to teach- only taking it a little slower soem days. At the same time she wrote an epic poem on Shackeltons Antarctic expedition-another tale of epic resilence.</p>
<p>I"m paraphrasing here, but Warren Buffett apparently said something to the effect of “leave enough money to your children so they can do something interesting with it, but don’t leave them so much that they can do nothing.” I like that.</p>
<p>Some of the rules contradict the Academic Performance Cult:
Rule 1: Life is not fair…get used to it.</p>
<p>The Academic Performance Cult insists that everything is fair and that anything that happens is ALL YOUR FAULT.</p>
<p>Rule 3: You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high
school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone, until you earn
both.</p>
<p>The Academic Performance Cult insists that the world owes a living to all ideal students.</p>
<p>Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents
had a different word for burger flipping-they called it opportunity.</p>
<p>The Academic Performance Cult insists otherwise. According to those who have drunk the Kool-Aid, anyone who conforms to its demands would NEVER EVER be in a position of having to flip burgers.</p>
<p>Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about
your mistakes, learn from them.</p>
<p>The Academic Performance Cult trains students to spin and to never admit weakness.</p>
<p>Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.</p>
<p>The Academic Performance Cult separates everyone into winners and losers. The winners are the perfect students. Everyone else is a sinning, slacking, promiscuous, scumbag loser.</p>
<p>Kawasaki was one of the original Apple programmers:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Live off your parents as long as possible.</p></li>
<li><p>Pursue joy, not happiness.</p></li>
<li><p>Challenge the known and embrace the unknown.</p></li>
<li><p>Learn to speak a foreign language, play a musical instrument, and play non-contact sports.</p></li>
<li><p>Continue to learn.</p></li>
<li><p>Learn to like yourself or change yourself until you can like yourself.</p></li>
<li><p>Don’t get married too soon.</p></li>
<li><p>Play to win and win to play.</p></li>
<li><p>Obey the absolutes.</p></li>
<li><p>Enjoy your family and friends before they are gone.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Bill Gates rule #1 should be, “Have mommy and daddy let you live at home for 6 years after you drop out of college, and have mommy arrange a lunch for herself with the President and CEO of IBM, an old family friend.”</p>
<p>Just a random, random thought… but of all the lousy people in the world, why bash Bill Gates? Isn’t he giving away most of his fortune to charity? Stepping down in '08 from Microsoft to run it? </p>
<p>So he had a big leg up. He still did something with that leg up and seized the opportunities given to him. If you’re going to pick on anyone, why not Paris Hilton?</p>
you took the words right out of my mouth. Lakeside is a wonderful school, roughly three times the cost of the UW, if they’ll take you.</p>