Good Advice from Bill Gates

Here's some good advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a
high school speech about 11 things they did not and will
not learn in school. He talks about how feel good,
politically correct teachings created a generation of
kids with no concept of reality and how this concept
set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it.

Rule 2: The world will not care about your self-esteem.
The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE
you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $40,000 a year right out of
high school. You won't be vice president with a car
phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait
till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.
Your grandparents had a different word for burger
flipping - they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents'
fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

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.

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.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get
summer off and very few people are interested in helping
you find yourself.  Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life.  In real life
people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up
working for one.