re: Where are they now: Valedictorian edition

We had two, one became an Olympian, and I think the other is a university professor.

Probably peaked in high school.

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What is the Valedictorian of your class doing today?

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Apparently living rent free in your head.

My class valedictorian (1982 Grace King): MD/PhD in medicine specializing in nephrology; she runs clinical trials and has been an instructor in medicine, lives in Birmingham, England; she is married to a similarly smart German guy who is also a researcher/professor there.

Salutatorian is also an MD/PhD but specializing in anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, and bioengineering; he is at The Mayo Clinic. He graduated from high school when he was 15 years old and had been taking classes at Tulane since he was 12.

Both incidentally are Asian (she-Chinese, he-Indian).

My wife was valedictorian of her small private school class (1985); she is a doctor and won the lottery by marrying me.

He’s a minister and a great guy. Why do you ask?

This guy graduated at the top of our class
I went to Cheesecake, he was a motherfricking waiter there.

Valedictorian hanged himself around 11 or 12 years after graduation.

The Salutatorian had a football scholarship to Cal (and a few other schools) but opted instead for West Point. He was an F-15 pilot until he retired. He is now making bank as some bullshite consultant, but his wife is fat so not everything is perfect.

That would be me. And the answer is working in an office where I shite post on tigerdroppings to pass the time because there's not enough work in the day to keep me occupied.

Pastor at a megachurch.

We had four valedictorians in my graduating class in the mid-00s. One is cognitive scientist, one is an actuary, one's a VP at a regional bank, and one does accounting stuff.

Our salutatorian (who was smarter than all of the valedictorians) is an engineer at Google with some patents to his name.

Four of the five are married. Between those five (and their spouses), there are three children. It's truly a shame to me how little priority the best and brightest among us are giving to raising a family.