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Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.

It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers

Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.

Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.

Some girls, of course, can be both popular and nice. But niceness involves treating others as equals [ ... ]

There are three elements to perceived popularity. A student has to be visible, recognizable and influential.

Exclusion is common behavior. But that doesn't make it unchangeable. And that doesn't mean that anything is wrong with the cafeteria fringe.

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

Unruly geeks change the world

Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.

Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one.

Nursing is more than a career; it is a calling. Nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects them.

How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country's top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn't have a law school

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

I love my job, and I hope people find comfort in knowing there are still people out there who love what they do. - a New York acute care nurse

Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.

There are no consequences for poor work ethic and no rewards for good work ethic.

Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.

Nobody's listening to me, he thought, story of my life.

The aging aren't only the old; the aging are all of us.

As a Minnesota agency nurse said, We are not just bed-making, drink-serving, poop-wiping, medication-passing assistants. We are much more.

Nursing was a deeply interpersonal profession in which people had to depend on others - doctors, techs, fellow nurses - to do their job well.

In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

Instead of revamping school policies to welcome every child, many school systems are bent on revamping the students to conform to their schools.

When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.

I tend to focus on young people and on giving a voice to groups of people who don't normally get their voices heard.

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

No student should be encouraged
by anyone
to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing.

The only way I'm going to make any friends is if I take the first step.

The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.

He could be disciplined when he wanted to be.

If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.

Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.

Awkwardness defines my life.