(May 27, 2010) — Students are only as good as the A’s on their report cards and the 2400’s on their SATs and their 4.0 GPAs. Without those, they will never be the doctors and the lawyers and the architects that they want to be. And the whole world of tomorrow will be run by the valedictorians of today, who will make billions of dollars doing what they love, eating caviar in yachts and sailing to exotic tropical islands every weekend. Because that’s just how the world works; no one said life was fair. So, unless you’re genetically disposed to getting straight A’s or you’re one of those people who have to actually work for straight A’s, you can count on spending the rest of your life flipping burgers or cleaning toilets. Or, if you’re lucky, you’ll end up working at a secretary’s office because you can’t expect to make a six-figure salary with a mediocre mind like that, do you? Not all intelligent people are successful, but all successful people are intelligent, like Pamela Anderson. We all know that the student who ranked number one in your class would never settle for a job as a seventh grade teacher, teaching snotty-nosed, pre-pubescent children how babies are made. That is so beneath him/her. And that successful Hollywood producer who makes appearances in every star-studded event must have graduated from Harvard summa cum laude. So, let’s pretend that we don’t care about our 3.9 GPAs and B’s in our math classes. Let’s pretend that smart people don’t bother us, and that we’re actually happy for them. Let’s pretend that we might actually be worth something, and that we might actually have a shot at success.