Success!

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Just got back from teeth-cleaning, where I mentioned that I was graduating and my dentist quite seriously advised me to "brush my teeth everyday. thats the key to success and if you have yellow teeth and bad breath you will fail at life." Everyone else thinks my success is getting into my dream college...too bad my idea of success is spitting ice cubes at people from two stories up and nailing them on the head. gosh that sounds terrible. anyway. </p>

<p>what's success to you? I found out i have two new cavities....i'm in need of a good laugh!</p>

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<p>Success to me is when I have thouroughly convinced everyone that I am stupid. The last day of school all my teachers asked what everyone was doing after high school. And when I said I was going to Georgia Tech...6 out of eight teachers were amazed that I am pursuing secondary education, and one still thinks I'm lying. That...is success.</p>

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<p>hahaha at both</p>

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<p>When my old man realized that I'm smarter than him, though he has been very ****ed about it since</p>

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<p>Success: has not happened yet. It will in a short while; for the most part it means getting my parents off my arse...which means yet another year.</p>

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<p>SUCCESS DEFINED
-I graduated Summa Cum Laude from NYU Stern School of Business.
-I successfully survived ibanking for two years after undergrad.
-I have an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School or Stern.
-I am either an investment banker or a venture capitalist.
-I make a 7-9 digit salary.
-I am married to a wife who also makes a 7-9 digit salary.
-I live in a mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut.
-I drive a Maserati.
-When I, sorry my financial advisor, draws up my budget, he doesn't have to take taxes into account.
-I have a $35MM private Gulfstream Jet.
-I have two kids, one in Andover and the other in Exeter.
-I own mansions in West Palm Beach, Palm Springs, Kona, Aspen, Vermont, London, Cape Cod, Maine, Auckland, and Sydney.
-My wealth matches or beats that of Bill Gates.
-I own a chalet in Switzerland.
-I have to have so many checking accounts I have to hide my money in a Swiss bank.
-I did all of the above (except for the kids thing) before the age of 35.</p>

<p>Yeah, basically, successful=filthy rich IMO.</p>

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<p>SUCCESS: I'm happy.
LOL, how many guys think that being rich is success -- LOL!</p>

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<p>We live in a capitalist society. We're bound to see ppl like me who equate success with immense wealth.</p>

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<p>actually...thats not such a bad def.
immense wealth, haha...sounds good to me</p>

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<p>Success = self-actualization (for some, achieved through wealth, for others, companionship, etc.)</p>

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<p>Hmm, sad. I think that success is not about money but I was grown in a post-communistic society so don't count me, alright.</p>

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<p>Sucess will come when I am truely, utterly satisfied with my life; I realize this may never happen, but I can only imagine what it'd feel like to step back and say, "gee, my life is absolutely perfect."</p>

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<p>futurenyustudent, I'd trade all that in for an airplane and unlimited fuel</p>

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<p>we read an article in eng. class this year that discussed that though many people define success as gaining immense wealth, they discovered in a survey that people who gained raises in salary and such actually felt more depressed than before they earned more money. I dont remember the exact facts and figures of the survey, it was an interesting article though im not sure how accurate it was...</p>

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<p>Hey my dad has a Maserati. It's dead sexy, like myself. But it's fun to drive...and watch as others stare at us rollin with wide open mouths.</p>