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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
Every nerd I knew in high school is now very well off.
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Originally Posted by Lasereth
I love how all the "cool" people I graduated with are working for moving companies and mowing yards and shit and now I have my degree and making respectable money. Too true, too true.
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This isn't universally true; some of us were foolish enough to get into small-press book publishing. 
The interesting thing is, I'm a cross-disciplinary nerd: I'm a computer/book nerd. I threw myself into the latter, and look where it got me.... 
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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