"Most Likely to Succeed" Burden
 

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/SB1000...1355921584.htm

the link brought me here

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/b...utrino/wsj.jpg

Same here.

Really...that sucks. Let me see if I can get a working link.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...share_facebook
Ok...here's hoping....

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:

You're just now figuring that out? :P

lol, I try not to think about that. haha

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

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

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

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.

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:

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....

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.

So, you were a drama Gleek? Figures... :P

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

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...