-Matt
I can't imagine there's a kid in school at Georgia Tech who hasn't had this feeling. For me, I feel like it's especially true. My parent's put me in a private school in kindergarden so that I would be fed into a good high school (not the public one down the street from our house). I needed to go to a good high school so that I would get into a good college. But to get into that college I actually had to do well in high school. I finally make it out of high school and end up in college working as hard, if not harder, than before -- and still no reward. Even after I graduate here, I'll have to work a bunch of mediocre jobs before I can move on to (hopefully, someday) my dream job. In the text, Matt experiences almost the same thing. One upside though? This webMD site claims that the ability to handle delayed gratification is a sign of intelligence! At least there's something going for it. Bruce Springsteen's "Better Days" seems to capture this feeling of never quite reaching you reward perfectly in this video:
I can't imagine there's a kid in school at Georgia Tech who hasn't had this feeling. For me, I feel like it's especially true. My parent's put me in a private school in kindergarden so that I would be fed into a good high school (not the public one down the street from our house). I needed to go to a good high school so that I would get into a good college. But to get into that college I actually had to do well in high school. I finally make it out of high school and end up in college working as hard, if not harder, than before -- and still no reward. Even after I graduate here, I'll have to work a bunch of mediocre jobs before I can move on to (hopefully, someday) my dream job. In the text, Matt experiences almost the same thing. One upside though? This webMD site claims that the ability to handle delayed gratification is a sign of intelligence! At least there's something going for it. Bruce Springsteen's "Better Days" seems to capture this feeling of never quite reaching you reward perfectly in this video:
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