Правила для студентов

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Наткнулся на "13 Советов Студентам", приписываемым Биллу Гейтсу, которые на самом деле - из книги Dumbing Down Our Kids товарища Charles Sykes. Понравилось. (via cherepashkina)

1. Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.
2. The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)
3. Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.
4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you feel about it.
5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.
6. It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer.
7. Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.
8. Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4.)
9. Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we're at it, very few jobs are interested in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)
10. Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.
11. Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
12. Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
13. You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.
14. Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.

Впрочем, умный студент и сам допрёт до всего этого сам. А тупого учить - бесполезно...

Comments

[bluedrag]

Во-первых, советы явно для школьников, а не для студентов.

Во-вторых, категорически не согласен со многими из них. Взрослая жизнь совершенно не обязательно состоит из переворачивания бюргеров под руководством начальника-мудака. Жизнь, в сущности, такова, какую мы себе сами выбираем, и мы как раз должны научить наших детей прожить её так, чтобы потом не было мучительно больно.

They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours.

Нафиг-нафиг!

Life is not fair - fuck it

[shizik-mizik.livejournal.com]

не думаю, что дело обстоит действительно так, не можешь изменить ситуацию-измени свое отношение к ней, просто надо оторвать свою пятую точку от дивана и быть поактивнее и понастойчивее, как-то меня не хотели брать на работу - я втечение недели звонила им, доказывая, что я-именно тот, кто им нужен, я получила работу и не жалуюсь...

[anatoliy.livejournal.com]

Согласен с предыдущим оратором. Когда я впервые прочитал эти советы, я был уверен, что это стёб такой. Т.е. что их надо понимать наоборот. Типа, Гейтс сделал всё против них, и стал таким крутым.

Потому что если не стёб, то я своим детям ни за что не буду внушать эту хрень про 8 часов и прочее, very looserish stuff.