When you want to dumb it down, drive up to the lake and take pictures of the ‘Hometown of Vern Troyer” billboard….nothing says reality quite like that.

2….I don’t recall you hitting anyone hard enough to get a concussion.

Regarding future employment, the one thing you need to keep in mind is that bright, motivated people will do well regardless of the overall economyand that true success should never be measured in material means.

The focus the other cultures bring to disciplines such as Engineering means that we’ll just end up with more unemployed engineers. The law of supply and demand is one of the strongest laws in physics. The train has already left the station for any elementary school student who knows what they want to be (with the exception of ‘cowboy’ and ‘fireman’). I don’t recall any of you saying “I’d like to have a career in Health Care.” when you were that age even though that would have been a very wise choice.

So do your homework, pass your classes, keep your scholarship, and position yourself to be ready for whatever opportunity presents itself.

And the key to the entrepreneur-ness is not to look at what people want (or don’t want) right now, but what they will want (or don’t want) 3 years from now.

re: #8 — Good answer.