17. Apply to Harvard as a transfer student. Sure people have wild success after going to an Ivy League school but this success is no more grand than that of the people who applied and got rejected. All people who apply to Ivy League schools seem to have similar high self-confidenceand ambition, even if they don't get in, according to a study by Kreuger.第十七,以轉校生的身份申請哈佛。人們從常春藤名校畢業無疑會取得巨大的成功,但是那些申請后被拒的學生也不差。所有申請常春藤名校的人都有同樣的自信和野心,即使不能入校就讀。
18. Get rid of your perfectionist streak. It is rewarded in college, but it leads to insane job stress and an inability to feel satisfied with your work. And for all of you still stuck on number 6, about ditching the law school applications: The Utah Bar Journal says that lawyers are disproportionately perfectionists.
第十八,不要過分追求完美,不要給自己不必要的壓力。生活不止是工作,學習,它還有很多很多。