<p>But before talking such BS, make sure you have earned a lot.
- Bill Gates</p>
<p>The whole theory can be compared with SAT scores. If you have enough, you say SATs are important. If you don’t have enough - “SAT is the not right measure to evaluate students. How can one judge what you should get in life through 3 hours exam”.</p>
<p>PrincetonDreams (aka StanfordReality - Congo dude) - In the Common Application, how have you approached the gap year column? You wrote an essay or listed everything in bullet points?</p>
<p>@Funky… not worth the effort elaborating about fantasies here… you see, its a matter of perspective, dont agree, great… but my views dont change…</p>
<p>Huh, owning a car is supposed to be the finest feeling in the world?? Urgh, did someone actually say that?? Fine, whatever, drop it,…</p>
<p>@rsaxena… i agree with you this topic needs to be dropped and soon… EVERYBODY has a right to their view, and by bashing each other, we won’t change any thing. AT ALL.</p>
<p>Imagine being on a wheelchair unable to pay your hospital bill and the having to deal with everyone wanting to kill you off, dismissing it as euthanasia. Not too ideal. :P</p>
<p>@PrincetonDreams -
Point taken. She’s doing Literature at Brown. The subject she loves. I’m not denying that I love engineering, but I’d want to study culinary arts at Le Cordon Bleu way more. Given, Hermoine’s position, I could’ve. </p>
<p>I’m not denying that everyone is entitled to their own views. You are. If only you could tell us what the view really was? What is more important?</p>
<p>Random fact:
The biggest hook in college admissions is if your parents donated a building or incredibly large sums of money to the university. It boils down to - Money can get you into college.</p>
<p>Imagine the reverse: Being in a wheelchair, billions in your bank,with no one to talk to except your lawyers and your bankers . Worse than it appears.</p>
<p>There’s far more to life other than money. Money is only a basic requirement. As long as money provides for physiological needs, it is of primary importance. After that, it becomes impossible to judge, what is more important than what. </p>
<p>In both the cases, poor health of the body is the primary problem. Money comes in later.</p>
<p>Your above post is absolutely correct. That’s another reason for you to donate generously to Cornell. :P</p>
<p>Eh… When on aid from a college, you do have to eventually give back, don’t you?
Is it exactly the same amount you took from 'em or does it depend over the time period u return it to them???</p>
<p>Very interesting information. I suggest, though, there would be a significant variance if we looked at 10-20 years post grad. The big bucks start to accumulate from age 35 to 50. That’s when and where ‘the special’ 1% breakout and leave us in their dust.</p>
<p>@debarghya-
How many rich guys have untimely poor health unless they’re 80s rock stars, who lived drugs, sex and rock and roll? Not much. </p>
<p>And the ‘Rich people are lonely’ hypothesis is outdated. They have friends and family too, you know.</p>
<p>People who aren’t rich have it much harder. I’ve seen it first hand. My dad had an angioplasty done a year ago. Fortunately, he could afford the most expensive stent available. He survived. A dad of one of my friends had an angioplasty done last month. He had to settle with a cheaper stent. He survived too. Point is, rich people are also less likely to die of unexpected ailments.</p>
<p>After that each individual has his/her own priorities. I’m not saying that I don’t wanna get rich. Just that there are people who are happy enough with their maruti suzuki to not care much about your Audi. </p>
<p>My point is, money is important because and as long as it can get you stuff to attend to important things. Money isn’t more important than those “important things”. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t have dragged this, if you didn’t relegate me to a wheelchair, without enough money to even pay my bills. Sheesh, I won’t even interview you for a CEO’s job in my Fortune 500 company. :P</p>
<p>*
I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay
Ain’t it sad
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
That’s too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy woman
I wouldn’t have to work at all, I’d fool around and have a ball
*</p>
<p>*
Those who have wealth of self-esteem, live long life. For those who don’t have self-esteem, what is use of wealth and long life? Subha*<strong><em>kar here is trying to portray importance of self esteem in life. If one has it, he is as good as living long life. If a person does not have it, then according to subhaa</em></strong>*kar, life and wealth he has, is useless. *</p>
