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Are you a Yankees fan?? Just wondering. Your screename makes me think you're a Yankees fan...then you whip out Cowboy Up on me.
A new environment would probably be the best thing to happen to me.
No, my screenname is NC because I live in North Carolina, and yank because I'm from PA and down here will always be considered a Yankee....not the baseball type, the geographical type.
The other thing you will have to remember about college is that it is much more competitive than high school. Your peers will not only be as gifted as you but most will not be as lazy. Frankly, a student who is very hardworking can run circles around a lazy but gifted student so don't rely too much on your natural ability if you aren't willing to back it up with HARD WORK. Most business people will take the hardworking employee any day over the gifted but lazy one....you have to really consider all of this now. You won't be the editor of your college paper like you are in high school, you'll be starting from the bottom up and 'lazy but great potential' just won't cut it...not at community college and not at a 4 year school and not on a resume after you graduate.
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Cowboy Up?? Go back to Boston!
Them is fightin' words, surr...
I'm truly baffled; I say "Cowboy Up" and you say "Boston"...
This is strong indication of an atypical associative process.
I actually think that you have a lot in common with the 18-year-old me, so I'm going to venture a guess and give you some advice that I needed to hear: Gifted writers have an edge as lawyers, as journalists, as businessmen, etc. etc. but it isn't necessarily a stock-in-trade. The core of your value in any career or endeavor is that people can trust you to get things done and get them done right. I would start cultivating a work ethic above and beyond anything else (which is to say "knock out two 4.0 quarters"). Procrastination is self-reinforcing. It gets harder and harder to get out of the cycle the longer you let it go on, so get out of it now. In short, COWBOY UP
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How do you know I'm going to be lazy??? Being away from my a-hole parents and my jerkoff friends and with new friends could be the best thing for me!
Your past behavior is the best predictor of your future behavior. It's also not a good sign that you 'blame' your environment as part of the problem. If you can only be successful around other people or somewhere else then you won't be successful. You think none of your professors will be 'a-holes', none of the new people you meet at college will be jerks? Your potential for success isn't defined by those around you but by the person YOU ARE, and that doesn't change when you leave home and go to college unless you change.
Look, I'm not trying to give you a hard time but you posted here asking for advice. The problem is that the answers are not what you want to hear. The solutions to your problems are to stop being so lazy, stop blaming those around you as part of your failure to reach your potential, stop dismissing viable options because they are not up to some standard set only in your own mind, stop looking for the easy way out, stop thinking your 'gift' is enough when you aren't willing to back it up with hard work.....these are things you have been doing and it's not working. Time to grow up and do something else. We'd love for you to prove us all wrong.
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You clearly dont remember the 2003 ALCS...
Kevin Millar ignites a rallying cry in Boston with "Cowboy Up"...but we get the better thanks to Aaron Boone!
Unfortunately those damn Red Sawks win next year...and then again 3 years later...
BUT WE WILL PREVAIL THIS YEAR! CC, AJ, MARK TEXIERA!
Definitely don't recall. I had football to watch and the 'Stros were out of it. Apart from an uncompromising hatred of the Yankees, not a whole lot gets me interested in baseball.
Anyway, enough about baseball. You need to learn to stay on subject.
Definitely don't recall. I had football to watch and the 'Stros were out of it. Apart from an uncompromising hatred of the Yankees, not a whole lot gets me interested in baseball.
Anyway, enough about baseball. You need to learn to stay on subject.
What have the Astros EVER won??
I hate the Mutt scum so much but they kicked your *** in 1986 and you always lose when it counts!
You should be studying, bringing up those grades, during your "Free Periods", not wasting time on message boards.
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