■Rule 1: Life is not fair
■Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem.
■Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school.
■Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
■Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.
■Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
■Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now.
■Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT.
■Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters.
■Rule 10: Television is NOT real life.
■Rule 11: Be nice to nerds.