THE TERRIBLE curse of "Most Likely To Succeed" EEEEEEEK!

http://gawker.com/5800706/the-lingering-curse-of-senior-superlatives

It seems that 1 out of 3 people who were named "most likely to succeed" see it as a burden. Hmmmmmmmmm...It seems kinda silly to me...but, then again, The person voted most likely to succeed in my class is in jail for child molesting.

I guess he succeeded but not in the way we were expecting.

What happened to your most likely to succeed?

So: :shrug:

There were only 80 people in our class and about 15 of us showed up for the reunion.

One of them was Mr "Most Likely to Succeed" and I was amazed at how much he hadn't changed. He was a pompous horses ass in high school and he's a pompous horses ass today. But as far as succeeding, he didn't do so well. Apparently he retired as some kind of middle manager after 40 years at an insurance company. So maybe the burden of being "Most Likely" hindered his otherwise inevitable rise to the top.

I don't remember how we selected people for these "honors" but I suspect the faculty had something to do with it because most of those selected were toadies and ass kissers who no kid would ever vote for.

I'll have to pull out the yearbook and see who won what awards and then see what they're doing now, lol!

graduated. I feel that I did succeed. I had a wonderful teaching career and retired after 32 years. I met and married my college boyfriend at Michigan State and we will be celebrating our 50th Wedding Anniversary in Sept. We raised 3 beautiful children, all of whom graduated from college and are married and raising their own families. To me, "Most Likely to Succeed" doesn't mean big jobs with big bucks, but a life that one can look back on with happiness and pride knowing you have done the very best you can do in life.

Bad American! Bad American! :spank:

;)

everyone else. My school didn't do this (thankfully). FWIW- there was one girl who came from a large family of *ahem* "downwardly mobile" people; brothers were bullies with bad grades, trouble with the law, etc. She floated completely under the radar. Well- now she's a Phd doing some kind of cancer reasearch, or some such thing.. nobody would ever have guessed.