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<p>^ Having grandiose ambitions is not bad in my book, if you gents wish to live a normal life, then blessings to you. I know for a fact that I will not be happy with a job and family, and I need much more than the basic American middle class life to be happy. Just they way I am, my bad that I have 6 (Insert psychopath, narcisstic, meganolomia disorder). Thank you to the poster that gave me that list of Harvard RB on the roster, I will print it out and share it with my coaches, so that we could form a plan together. Honestly not sure why ambitious people are so ridiculed in society, yes I have not proven anything as of late, you can use that ammo against me, however as soon as I want to be this great person everyone things that I am this Frank Underwood that kills people because they are in his way and it’s fun.</p>

<p>I mean chill guys, if the kid wants to be INSERT CRAZY GOAL, don’t ridicule them, tell them to get off their rear and start working (as several posters did). I am working very hard now, I am simply going on CC to gather any additional information that I can in order to help accomplish my ambitions. Again I must know why ambition is ridiculed in society, I mean my guidance counselors think that I am crazy, because I do not fit into the go to college and be normal checkbox, EVERYONE that I generally talk to reacts the same, I mean come on guys you gotta want SOMETHING? If everyone is such a drone then I can understand why we have so many elitist problems in the United States. If people actually got off their rears (see what I did there :D), and work to make a better life for themselves other than the classic middle class job have children die cycle, we might advance as a species.</p>

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<p>^ Again thank you to the posters giving me advice, like the people I should aspire to become. The only question is that I will not be valedictorian nor National honor society, so is there anything else that I me be able to do that could offset this? I mean hell I’ll write the next international bestselling novel if that is what it takes.</p>

<p>Me: 2.6 GPA, crappy time on JV -.-, terrible everything else. How can I become…</p>

<p>Blade Brady – Three-time captain, four-year letterwinner in football at Sierra Canyon … Named CIF-SS Student Athlete of the Year as a senior … In 2012, named Defensive MVP … All-CIF selection in 2012 … Three-time All-League selection … Iron Man Award Recipient as a junior … Pat Tillman Award recipient in 2010 …Leading rusher as a sophomore and junior … Paced Sierra Canyon’s defense as a senior as leading tackler … Four-time recipient of Head of School Award … Member of National Honor Society and Cum Laude Society.</p>

<p>Andrew Casten – Three-sport captain in football, basketball and track & field … Three-year letterwinner and two-year starter in football as a running back, defensive back and kicker/punter … Rushed for 1,452 yards on 204 carries (7.1 ypc) and 28 touchdowns as a senior … Led the Shore Conference in points scored with 196 on 28 touchdowns, 22 extra points and four two-point conversions … Two-time first team all-division … Two-time first team All-Shore Conference running back and second team all-state as a senior … National Honor Society … President of the student council.</p>

<p>Dominick DeLucia – Two-year captain … Four-year letterwinner in football at Pittsford Mendon where he started at tailback for three seasons … Named Rochester Democrat & Chronicle All-Great Rochester Player of the Year as a senior … Two-time first team running back … New York State Stportswriters Association All-State running back second team selection as a senior and third team selection as a junior … Set Pittsford Mendon’s record for single seasong rushing yards (2,312) and touchdowns (26) as a senior … Ranked 21st in the country and second in New York State in rushing yards per game … Carried 45 times to help Pittsford Mendon break New York’s first-place team 17 game winning streak … Two-time section finalist … Holds New York State’s section 5 record for most 300-plus rushing guames in a season … Appeared in the 2012 All Star Game, he captained the east team for the game and was named the offensive Most Valuable Player … Class Valedictorian … Named Pittsford Mendon Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year and National Football Foundation Rochester Chapter Scholard Athlete of the Year as a senior … Recipient of the Department for the Army Scholar Athlete Award and the Salvatore Scholarship … Member of Order Sons of Italy in America and student government for four years.</p>

<p>Anthony Firsker – One-year captain, three-year letterwinner in football at Manalpan where he played wide receiver … Named All-Shore Offensive Player of teh Year as a senior … In 2012 named to the All-State Group V, All-Monmouth first team and all-state second team … Two-time All-Shore first team selection … Named to the All-Division first team as a junior … Holds Manalapan’s records in receiving years (2,118), receptions (110) and touchdown receptions (19) … Also a two-time captain, four-year letterwinner in basketball … Two-time member of the All-Division first team and All-Shore second team as a point guard… Member of Manalapan’s 1,000-point club … member of the National Honor Society and Peer Leadership … His brother, Josh, played football at Wagner College.</p>

<p>Chris Robinson – three-year letterwinner, team captain as a senior … Named 2013 Offensive MVP … Ram Tough Award recipient … Named second team All-District running back … All-District Academic Team selection … Three- year National Honor Society Member and one-year Sergeant at Arms within it … Member of the Key Club, Music Society, and Leaders of Tomorrow club at Cypress Ridge.</p>

<p>Semmar Smith – Three-year letterwinner, team captain as a senior … Helped Broward Prep to the District Championship in 2012 … Three-time Sun Sentinel Second Team All-County football team selection … Three-time Miami Herald Second Team All-County football selection… Named Scholar Athlete of the Month … Brother, Seitu II, ’15, also plays football at Harvard.</p>

<p>I mean if I have to be like this, then it’s to late and I’m throwing college out the window. I love this school and it will be the only school that means every single one of my expectations, so as an honest answer that you can give, should I even bother?</p>

<p>If a majority of posters tell me that I shouldn’t, then I’m throwing any hopes of college out the window, work on generating my first startup, and work on that billionaire goal. And then, one day, when Harvard wants to give me a bunch of honorary degrees, and invite me to speak in a bunch of class graduations, I could choose to not go. So what should I do, because there is no way that I am going to get accepted without football, and as football seems to not work for me, I guess that I am not going to college anyway.</p>

<p>I can wrap these annoying posts right here and there, as while this has pursued me for about 6 years now, billionaire goal proceeds this by a longshot. And I don’t need college for that goal, infact it will be a debt trap and waste of my time. So please calm your emotions for just a second, and in your brief moment of sanity before you punch the screen because this kid is wasting his awesome college experience life, I can assure you that I am not, that I am completely and utterly serious, and that I am tired of working for something that will not happen. Now before you go crazy and tell me billionaire thing will not happen, I have studied many college dropout graduates, people who never went to college, people who did not finish high school, and people that only finished elementary, and some who never even been to school, and I can assure you, I fit the requirement for the goal that I want to do. So many people tell me that it is a mistake, however college is not a requirement for success, the only requirement is a healthy dose of insanity ( the do something over and over tenacity that Rockefeller talks about) and a very good mindset and plan. I have both, and I’m ready to begin. Oh, and for the president part, you don’t really need college, if Lincoln managed to save half of the country splitting off and destroying each other without a degree, then it will be a walk in the park. And the election part involves charisma and actual honesty to the people, something that you can learn on your own.</p>

<p>So ladies and gentlemen, adults who have lived much longer than me, which path shall I embark?</p>

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<p>Knowing myself I will not quit, as I simply can’t due to the way that I am, however let me know what you think my outcome is going to be for both roads that I will be embarking. This should be the end of me on CC, thank you for all the advice given to me, and I wish everyone luck on whatever endeavors you are currently pursuing.</p>

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<p>Paul calm down–life isn’t black and white. Sure, you have those two options you listed, but there are way to go about trying to achieve both! If you channel your ambition into your schoolwork and football, you will have a chance to shine on your admissions essays and the potential to charm some of your interviewers. It’s not too late to make up some lost ground. You might fall short of Harvard, but there are so many other schools out there that produce geniuses and successes in life everywhere. You can come back and give temporary updates (like how the semester shapes up hopefully in your favor, or if you test well, or if your athletics improve) and everyone here can help you find a more refined idea of what to do.</p>

<p>The world is yours right now, Paul, so DO NOT quit, and see how you do this year.
Keep us updated</p>

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<p>“I mean if I have to be like this, then it’s to late and I’m throwing college out the window.”</p>

<p>Yes, we’ve been trying to tell you, on this thread and the many others you’ve cluttered, that for Harvard you do in fact have to be like this – and you unfortunately are not, by a long shot. Maybe we’ve now finally gotten through to you.</p>

<p>But we’ve also been trying to tell you to control your complete immaturity and quit the “if I can’t get into Harvard I’ll take my ball and go home” tantrum. Grow up. We get it – you think it would be cool to tell people you go to Harvard. But as you mature (hopefully) you’ll come to understand that your educational future doesn’t isn’t binary – Harvard vs. all other institutions of higher learning in the US you deem a worthless expense. </p>

<p>Don’t come back to CC until you’ve spent some more time developing a set of reasonably achievable ambitions and a realistic gameplan to achieve them. I’m sure I speak for many of us when I say that we are tired of hearing about your lofty ambitions that bear no proportionate relationship to your demonstrated work ethic (you cite yourself as lazy) or results (quite poor to date). No one is adverse to ambitions. we are adverse to BS. And you’ve shown yourself to be a petulant BS artist.</p>

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<p>*averse</p>

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<p>Nahh I am not throwing a tantrum. I learned at a young age that they never work, so I never did them. Also realize that your analogy can also be used to support my point, the kid who does not like the game can simply take his ball and head home, therefore forcing the other kids to accept his demands, or not play. My immaturity is simply a decision to break away from everything that is expected of me, and to live a life that I create, and that I want.</p>

<p>I have to explain as well, that developing reasonable achievable ambitions is not on my list of plans. I understand that the average ambition is to go to college, or to get a nice job with a hopefully nice boss who is kind and pays you well. Well I’m sorry heights, but that bores me terribly. Infact I could not survive in a middle class environment, I despise authority, the first thing that I don’t like about the boss I will say to his/her face, which means I’m quickly out of that awesome middle class life everyone talks about. Teachers tell me I must be a great listener, follow instructions extremely well, and do all this in order to get a job. Not once did they tell me to make my own job, do whatever I want to do, or even look outside of the college system.</p>

<p>Now you say that my educational future is not binary, and that I have many more choices instead of Harvard. You are dead right on this one, one awesome path that is not college is called Barns and Noble, which is this awesome place that for around 500 USD (give or take), can give me a better education than 100,000 in college. I think that is a good deal. Another awesome road that happens to be created by someone similar to me is called Google. On this road, you can for the price of an internet connection and internet accessing device, get the exact same experience that you will get in college. I mean you can find lectures, with actual professors who teach the exact same things, only that instead of paying like 20,000 a year, it’s free on YouTube, that’s right free, in a capitalist economy, wow… You pay like 1,000 for a parking ticket nowadays in college, I can learn more than in a college for less than that.</p>

<p>Mockery and jokes aside, I hope you realize that I am not your normal sophomore. That kid who walks out and takes the ball because he is losing under the current rules is doing a very effective strategy. Armies do the same under a scorched earth policy, deprive your enemy of the stuff that he is fighting for, and it will all be for nothing. Losing under the current system, simply flip over the table and reset it according to your wishes. We teach the kid that it’s not ‘right’, or ‘fair’, to deprive the other kids of fun and entertainment simply because he is losing, well reality check people, life is not fair. That coworker who got 3 promotions more than you because her shirt exposes her jewels quite nicely, and the boss get’s wild and does whatever she wants, is playing under a new game that she sets. I know many adults who hate having regulation, and think that people should be free to work under a free market system, because that’s the ‘American’ way. Well if you are losing work, and starving to death because that welfare system you so desperately need has been abolished, because it’s not ‘capitalist’, well I can’t really say anything.</p>

<p>I want Harvard because I want Harvard. I want to learn under the best people in the world, and feel great when I can have excellent talks with great minds. I want to run that precious leather ball, under the wall of red, against any opponent who tries to stop me. I want kids to think that I am a dumb jock, then work to prove them wrong. And most importantly, I want to show to all the kids who have been repressed under the current system, that teachers tell them that their dreams can’t be followed, because they are not smart enough, pretty enough, or good enough, that you can do whatever you wish. You can wake up on day, want whatever you want, and work to get it, because that’s the American way.</p>

<p>Will continue to respond to this post until comments either die down, or CC runs out of advice to tell me. I will reopen this topic around January, after my football season, and will begin to go to camps and get as much film in as possible. Will get my grades up, run for class president, and do a bunch of awesome smart kid things that will make my teachers crazy, because it’s unusual to see a football player in academic decathlon :D. Thank you, and see you soon everyone.</p>

<p>Paul,</p>

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<p>In all seriousness I encourage you to seek adult help from a counselor or adviser. You are a deeply disturbed young man headed in the wrong direction.</p>

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<p>Paul, </p>

<p>DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP POSTING HERE.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP POSTING HERE.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP POSTING HERE.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP POSTING HERE.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP POSTING HERE.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP POSTING HERE.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP POSTING HERE.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP POSTING HERE.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP POSTING HERE.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP POSTING HERE.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND STOP POSTING HERE. </p>

<p>( We are trying to help you here, but you must help yourself by doing your school work.
Posting here is a waste of time until you bring your grades up.)</p>

<p>See you in January!</p>

<p>Charles</p>

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<p>^ Agreed, I will stop posting and work on my grades. Thank you heights for your recommendation, however I unfortunately can’t quite meet your recommendation. Unfortunately my schedule is quite filled with things that I must do, if you could provide a diagnosis over CC, I will much appreciate it. I would love to know your thoughts. As for this forum post, feel free to post info if you wish, however I must focus on HW until January, where I can post my sophomore year and you guys can give me recommendations. I’m prepared for a great season, or a terrible one, either way I will find a way to get accepted to the crimson tide.</p>

<p>See you in a few months,</p>

<p>Paul</p>

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<p>"…either way I will find a way to get accepted to the crimson tide."</p>

<p>If you are an Alabama resident and your grades improve, there is a chance that you could get accepted by the University of Alabama. Unless you have some serious unrecognized talent, I don’t believe you will be playing football for the Crimson Tide.</p>

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<p>He’s delusional. Please stop replying to him and let this thread end!</p>

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<p>^ Nahh I am not delusional. I simply require some work and changes in my current lifestyle in order to make my delusion a reality. Everyone has some serious unrecognized talent hidden somewhere in themselves, they simply need to find it and dust it off. As for myself, the reason that I know that I will succeed is because I forced myself to do it or else I won’t go to college. I believe that going all in on a goal will eventually make you accomplish it, and to this end I have made my mind to apply to only one college, and tell myself that if I am truly destined to use up 4 years of my life in a college environment, that everyone says is worth it, then I will only accept the best of the best. Therefore, if I can’t have the best of the best, I don’t get it at all. This will be my motto through life, no working in middle class job when I can join the elites, and no substitutes for the best when I serve my country as her leader.</p>

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<p>THREAD CLOSED, WILL BE REOPENED JANUARY</p>

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<p>If I didn’t know better I would think Sam Vaknin the author of Malignant Self Love was the OP. </p>

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<p>Dude doesn’t know that Harvard is the Crimson, not the Crimson Tide.</p>

<p>Hopefully he does take the 500 bucks to buy and read some books.</p>

<p>Because I think he is watching too much TV.</p>