I'd heard of Fisher, but never had him for any of my classes. He had earned a reputation for bullying students, and I enjoyed battling with those sorts of little tin gods. :-)

It certainly helped. While I've met some terrific people on Wall Street, I've met my share of clowns, screamers and bullies, too. However, I've learned that when they don't get similar kinds of responses, they tend to back down or improve their behavior. I have a current colleague who had a reputation for yelling, cursing and whining, and I've seen him do it with some other colleagues. However, he's never done it with me, because I never curse in the office, never raise my voice, and make it clear that such behavior is unprofessional and unacceptable. Behaving professionally and doing one's job well can defang pointy-haired bosses pretty effectively. :-)

I remember Regents exams around June. Gosh, I haven't studied that hard since Stuy. I feel all those knowledge and good grades was wasted. I don't feel smart or useful anymore. It seems school sometimes don't correlate to the success they promise us. I wish I studied less and made more friends and hung out more, because I sacrificed a lot of growing up for good grades that doesn't seem to get me much anywhere now. I don't know if anyone else felt this way. Or is it only me?

I echo this lack of respect for good school out here in the west. Going to stuy, bronx science (ducky from pretty in pink went there aka jon cryer on two and half men), and brooklyn tech or those fancy private schools means something out east. It's not that I think we are entitled. But I feel sometimes others out of jealousy either try to snub us to prove that a good school doesn't mean anything. Even decent top 50 colleges out here is nothing it seems or grad schools, because most people out here don't go to college and see street smarts or people smarts as the key ingredient to success. I like that the wall street and the law industry have the fast track and the criteria to accept only top schools and actually value that. I also don't like the reality of success seems to be more closer to how to kiss ass, how to bully others and put people in their places, step over others in any dirty manners, get you to the top. Or maybe I'm just stupid and not good at politics. I let people step all over me and I'm too passive and chickenshit to fend for myself or raise my voice.

I took the subway to school from Lower East Side/outside of chinatown. There were only two or three other kids from my area that went to Stuy from the same train station, but we were in different grades. I loved hanging out at the Village after school and wish I hung out more instead of studied and followed the kids to go out of state to school and be free from my parents. Now I'm such a wimpy old maid without social skills.

The best would be to have stuy grads create a company together. Wonder how many are out here in Cali? In different countries? In other states?

Maybe the industry we chose - the computer industry doesn't value schooling and grooming people up into the ranks and job security, which I really don't like at all. I do respect Microsoft for testing logical deduction in their interviews with the brainteasers which is similar to law school logic puzzles. I also find working with others from good schools tend to be able to grasp my thoughts and ideas faster and with ease and vice versa, while others don't get it as quickly or dont follow the same pattern of thinking. It may be the way our schools taught us to analyze and think.

I don’t want to sound like an entitled elitist snob and I have met one or two high school grads who are extremely brilliant without having gone to college, but they are very professional and well read too and sharp without kissing ass. I probably am saying all this out of emotions instead of more formulated thoughts, so I must apologize ahead of time if I offend anyone.

Sorry kind of grumpy today.

I sometimes think I should start my own business. At present, I don't have a good idea for a business. Also, it is very risky, especially when people like VCs are involved.