I've asked a similar question before. All I see is evidence they can't. Look at this for instance: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/鈥?/a> "Meanwhile, Fryer raised himself, and not very well. He got a job at McDonald's and stole from the cash register. He sold marijuana and carried a .357 Magnum for a while. But he was fiercely competitive on the basketball court and the football field, and that's where he excelled, earning a basketball scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington. In his first semester of college, Fryer took a calculus class. On his initial exam, he scored 45 out of 100. "My friends started calling me Colt 45," he remembers. The failure enraged him, and his pride kicked in. "I didn't want to be like everyone else from my neighborhood," he says. Fryer started working hard in school for the first time. He graduated in two and a half years with an economics degree. Then he got his Ph.D. at Penn State University" How did this guy get a PhD? He had FRIENDS that motivated him. And he played basketball/football which meant he must have had someone to play with. You might say, go out and make friends now. But say if I did, what would I do if someone asks me what I do for a living? Turn pale in the face? How is it possible to socially interact if you're already a loser in the eyes of everyone else? And how are you going to answer if someone asks "do you have a girlfriend", "what are your goals", etc.? Not to mention, where would I find a place to have social interaction - I'm not in high school or university anymore. I used to be taught that staying in school and getting grades is the key to success, but it feels like a farce. Going to school is just a temporary goal to spend your time on, if you have no goals for the future. Most jobs are found through networking, and employers like to see confident, goal-oriented people - the opposite of me.|||Success in schooling and other areas of life is basically all about determination. People who go nowhere in life are simply not determined enough to do otherwise. that's the way it is. Sure it'd be hard but people can have babies at highschool and still pass with straight a's if they are determined enough. Same with drugs.|||Don't get pregnant right after or during highschool.|||It's all in how they choose to deal with things. Just because someone is "unpopular" at one point in their lives doesn't mean they don't have the same opportunities as anyone else. Their life will be what they choose to make of it. They are solely responsible how far they go and what obstacles they allow to hinder them and they can try to blame anything and everything (anyone and everyone) for their lack of success, but it always comes back to them.|||Just because you're "unpopular" in school doesn't mean you're going to grow up to be nothing. Popularity doesn't define anyone's success, unless, of course, you're in the entertainment business or something.|||People who are popular in high school seem to have their popularity isolated to that. Once they enter the real world, their "assets" are no longer of value. Those who are unpopular are often the so-called "nerds" who end up actually going somewhere in life.

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