lesson that we can learn

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

Rule 2: The world won't 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 thousand dollars a year right out of high
school.  You won't be a 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. He
doesn't have tenure.

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 screw 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 by paying your bills, cleaning your room, and
listening to you tell how idealistic you are.  So before you save the rain
forest from the bloodsucking 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,  they'll
give  you  as many times as you want to get the right  answer.   This,  of
course,  bears  not   the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

Rule 9:   Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and
very few employers 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.