How successful is your HS valedictorian?

May 27, 2017
4:46:30am

Supercoug All-American

http://time.com/money/4779223/valedictorian-success-research-barking-up-wrong/?xid=frommoney_soc_socialflow_twitter_money

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How successful is your HS valedictorian?

Supercoug

5/27/17 4:46am

Plastic Surgeon in NYC, he's living the dream

Noni Fruit

5/27/17 5:25am

Valedictorian is fine..salutatorian is a grocery checker who loves booze & weed

jrifkin48

5/27/17 5:25am

Horrific to hear the lifestyle he's fallen into.

vagabonder

5/27/17 6:01am

Too many incentives for them to stay on the rez. We have really hurt them by....

jrifkin48

5/27/17 6:14am

Well, the things we did first to take all their land and force them onto

CDV

5/27/17 6:59am

There is no doubt what we did is terribly wrong, but that is what people did

ybyuy

5/27/17 7:22am

So were your ancestors here in the 1950's when

CDV

5/27/17 7:28am

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bruincoug

5/27/17 7:32am

What has been your involvement in reversing all of this?

phatcougar

5/27/17 8:52am

I have also done nothing and I am not calling anyone out,

CDV

5/27/17 9:35am

There is a lot of truth to this.

JohnnyComeLately

5/27/17 8:10am

"horrific"...?

BYUtiful

5/27/17 9:34am

agree

GA_Coug

5/27/17 10:47am

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JohnnyComeLately

5/27/17 7:51am

Probably doing well but probably not creative.

mobomanjoe

5/27/17 5:29am

My sis - teacher and awesome wife and mom.

grosven

5/27/17 5:32am

That's great. But she's rich, right?

WDaddy

5/27/17 5:36am

Yale grad, MS from UCLA, then became a Navy figher pilot, had a kid this week.

vagabonder

5/27/17 5:45am

I'm doing alright

Triznaynay

5/27/17 5:51am

I don't even remember who it was.

Slim

5/27/17 6:00am

Says the salutatorian doctor . . . .

Supercoug

5/27/17 6:01am

RE: I don't even remember who it was.

BYUtka

5/27/17 6:39am

Math lecturer at Arizona

BIG XII Coug

5/27/17 6:14am

im a math lecturer in Idaho...."Do your math or I'm taking your cell phone"...

Cougarpolis

5/27/17 7:07am

Patent attorney.

Virginia Ute

5/27/17 6:17am

Rhodes Scholar and Professor at University of St. Andrews in Scotland

Solomon Levi

5/27/17 6:24am

Sad. Couldn't even get a job in the USA.

John Doe

5/27/17 8:32am

When he graduated with his PhD from Oxford, he decided he liked that side of the pond.

Solomon Levi

5/27/17 8:54am

CEO Fortune company

Archaea

5/27/17 6:25am

Very. Her and a friend invented Post-it Notes.

Malathion

5/27/17 6:25am

Astrophysicist, studied at Harvard, Yale and UChicago, discovering exoplanets.

NihonCougar

5/27/17 6:33am

BYU professor.

BigEasyCougar

5/27/17 6:58am

Yale Law School Grad. Works for a big NYC firm.

HomeTownHero

5/27/17 7:01am

I'm fine, thank you.

LeftOfNormal

5/27/17 7:03am

Head football coach at the University of Virginia

Cougarpolis

5/27/17 7:04am

I'd really have no idea if it wasn't me. Haven't kept in touch with most of my

fbguru

5/27/17 7:05am

Orthopedic surgeon somewhere in Missouri

Mathlete

5/27/17 7:14am

A decently successful mom blogger

maxpowers

5/27/17 7:25am

Math prof at big state school on east coast

bruincoug

5/27/17 7:32am

V- once divorced stay at home mom. S- CEO of decent sized company

JohnnyComeLately

5/27/17 7:52am

Pediatric cardiologist. Chief of Pediatric Cardiology

Texas Hammer

5/27/17 7:56am

Well which is it?

Cougarpolis

5/27/17 8:11am

Chemistry professor at a major university

orangepitbull

5/27/17 7:56am

Never cared enough to know who was valedictorian or salutatorian. Whoever that

Game Changer

5/27/17 8:14am

Beats me. Don't remember who it was.

Northwest Cougar

5/27/17 8:23am

Who?

John Doe

5/27/17 8:26am

Director of finance. The salutatorian is an executive at a fortune 500 company.

BYU81

5/27/17 8:28am

V attorney SE ID S. Orthopod who occasionally posts on CB

Osteotome

5/27/17 8:32am

She's an engineer working for a calculator company

buffgato

5/27/17 9:04am

Guys, I guarantee you I win most crazy story: mine was the guy in Friday Night L

Incentivize

5/27/17 9:09am

TL;DR

TNT

5/27/17 9:29am

Ours is an LDS gal teaching in Wy some place.

soupie

5/27/17 9:11am

No idea? Don't remember and don't really care.

Romex

5/27/17 9:27am

family medicine doctor. apparently pretty successful

byujag

5/27/17 9:37am

She was a successful surgeon but was caught up in a medical malpractice

PickleButton

5/27/17 9:45am

Hmm a patent lawyer s/p a Stanford Law Degree

buckles

5/27/17 5:57pm

I swear he's like an it manager or something really lame.

Dillinger

5/27/17 10:10am

No clue. I haven't kept track of most of the people I went HS with.

Wedgetail

5/27/17 11:06am

I married one. She's a stay at home so... not really doing much

MacGyver

5/27/17 11:15am

Bite you tongue! (Err, fingers?)

soupie

5/27/17 12:06pm

Hopefully TIC, because she may be doingmore important work than all these others

Chambana Coug

5/28/17 7:28am

Definitely TIC

MacGyver

5/28/17 3:06pm

I was a major good grade nerd

Belboz

5/27/17 12:54pm

I would disagree

GA_Coug

5/27/17 1:11pm

I had almost no fun in high school because of stress over getting an A.

Belboz

5/27/17 1:49pm

Wow, the Greensheet, that's a blast from the past...

So it goes...

5/27/17 8:42pm

Operations superintendent for an oil company in Texas.

WhyKnot

5/27/17 1:06pm

Went to Brown, studied Mechanical Engineering then worked at Goldman Sachs

LaserCoug

5/27/17 2:53pm

RE: Went to Brown, studied Mechanical Engineering then worked at Goldman Sachs

Jeffacka

5/27/17 2:56pm

A welder. She was the only one of us to get into Tech School

newbie

5/27/17 8:57pm

We had 8, I have no idea where any of them are

JOPE

5/28/17 12:45am

RE: We had 8, I have no idea where any of them are

LeftOfNormal

5/28/17 7:35am

No idea. But my daughter and son are doing well. Yes, humble brag. Both have

tander123

5/28/17 8:33am

Guess I missed the humble part 😉

Cougarpolis

5/28/17 2:50pm

Couldn't tell you mine... But they person who won that honor where I currently teach...

Adrielle

5/28/17 8:48pm

Transgender?

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