The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
3．刚从学校走出来时你不可能一个月挣4万美元，更不会成为哪家公司的副总裁，还拥有一部汽车，直到你将这些都挣到手的那一天。
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.
4．如果你认为学校里的老师过于严厉，那么等你有了老板再回头想一想。
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
5．卖汉堡包并不会有损于你的尊严。你的祖父母对卖汉堡包有着不同的理解，他们称之为“机遇”。
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
6．如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的过错，不要将你理应承担的责任转嫁给他人，而要学着从中吸取教训。
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about our mistakes, learn from them.
7．在你出生之前，你的父母并不像现在这样乏味。他们变成今天这个样子是因为这些年来一直在为你付账单、给你洗衣服，听你说你有多酷。所以当你想消灭你父母那一代的寄生虫去拯救热带雨林时，先将你自己房间清理干净吧。
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing' the closet in your own room.
8．你所在的学校也许已经不再分优等生和劣等生，但生活却并不如此。在某些学校已经没有了“不及格”的概念，学校会不断地给你机会让你进步，然而现实生活完全不是这样。
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 doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
9．走出学校后的生活不像在学校一样有学期之分，也没有暑假之说。没有几位老板乐于帮你发现自我，你必须依靠自己去完成。
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.
10．电视不是真实的生活。真实生活中人们不得不离开咖啡馆去工作。
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
