"Most Likely to Succeed" Burden

[Jester]

So, being voted "Most Likely to Succeed" causes pressure on students, and some schools are even discontinuing the practice of superlatives all together to keep from stressing people out. I seriously don't remember who was "Most Likely to Succeed" from my high school...actually I dug out my old yearbooks and looked...THOSE PEOPLE BETTER HAVE SUCCEEDED...if they haven't I'll be sooo let down. [/sarcasm]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704681904576315061355921584.htm

[Revan]

the link brought me here

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb94/kalaneutrino/wsj.jpg

[gobo]

Same here.

[Jester]

Really...that sucks. Let me see if I can get a working link.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704681904576315061355921584.html?m od=wsj_share_facebook
Ok...here's hoping....

[oldmanwinters]

Looks like I got lucky and just won "Best Personality." :D

Wait... does that imply something bad about the way I look???:ohwell::ohwell::ohwell:

[gobo]

You're just now figuring that out? :P

[oldmanwinters]

You're just now figuring that out? :P

lol, I try not to think about that. haha

[Spitfire]

The people voted most likely to succeed from my graduating class ended up working at Starbucks and Long's Drugs. Hilarious.

[Jester]

What's funny is the girl who won "MLtS" my freshman year...just graduated with her PharmD...doctorate of pharmaceutical sciences....one of the people in my high school is a doc.

Knew my high school crush would succeed. :D

[Powder]

I was "most artistic". I've not failed! Though better artists have come out of my school.

[Cowabunga Kiefer]

I was voted "most talented"...but I'm still the same. I don't think there's any pressure, and it's not like I want to audition for "America's Got Talent" or some reality show. I just want to make a career out of what I'm good at.

[oldmanwinters]

So many of those high school class elections are joke awards anyway. Class pet, class pest, class clown, quietest, funniest, etc.; it's all in good fun, right?

I think anybody who feels burdened by their senior high school class elections must have insecurity issues to begin with. I mean, it's not like each student has to give an annual report on their progress to the school board or give a speech at their class reunions to let everybody know if they lived up to their expectations.

At least, I don't think so...:twink:

[Redeemer]

I am probable one of the youngest dromers on here and I jst graduated, we did not even have any class elections. If we did have some I think I would have easily won the quietest award sense My senior year was my first year at the school and I was constantly sick the second half of the year...either that or most athletic. I am not sure....

[BubblyShell22]

I was voted as Most Dramatic in my senior class. I think it was due to the fact that I was in Drama Club and was in the plays during all my years of high school.

[gobo]

I was in Drama Club and was in the plays during all my years of high school.
So, you were a drama Gleek? Figures... :P

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, but I wasn't a Gleek then. But now, yeah, I'm a drama Gleek. I also sang in choir too.

[oldmanwinters]

Perhaps as a reflection of how vague my memory can be, I just recalled that I was not voted "Best Personality," but rather "Best Attitude." I guess that doesn't have quite the implicit negative connotation about my physical appearance. Or so one can hope...