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Susan Minzter

I guess I should start with a hello, or perhaps it should be a cry as that is how we all enter the world -- and that's sort of how I feel at the moment as I enter the World Wide Web for the first time -- trying not be be antiquated already at a relatively early age.

To write a life story about oneself is rather difficult as I've always been someone with a story to tell; unfortunately the story is always one or two of the parts -- the parts being the beginning, middle, or end; however, since my life is still continuing, all I can say is there is a beginning, a then, and a now so that is what I shall consider with you.

My childhood memories are happy with the most traumatic being at age six when my family uprooted from Elizabeth, NJ to move to a land far away from all my friends to Westfield, NJ. Little did I know that this trek was only 12 - 15 miles away, but to a child of six I might as well have traveled across many seas. However, my tears quickly turned to smiles as my mother let me pick out the new colors for my room -- every girl's dream of hot pink, yellow kelly green, and bright orange.

1. It's easy to find a job; it's hard to find a good job.

2. Helping others succeed is a really good feeling.

3. "What if" is a really lousy way to live your life.

4. Failure by not doing is the worst failure of all.

5. It's really important to accurately acknowledge your strengths and weaknesses.

6. Responsibility without authority really sucks.

7. Everybody has great dreams.

8. Every family has skeletons in the closet.

9. You're with yourself 100 percent of the time so you had better be good company.

10. "Carpe diem" really is a good thing.

11. No job is glamorous.

12. College does not prepare you for the "real world."

13. Not everyone wants you to succeed.

14. It's better to hear "no," then to wonder.

15. College doesn't automatically make you brilliant.

16. If you kick someone, he or she will kick you back.

17. Sometimes it's O.K. to split infinitives.

18. A good song can usually make you feel better.

19. If you eat a bunch of Oreo's and shortly after get a bump on the head and throw up, you'll no longer like Oreo's.

20. You never know when you're going to meet a friend.

21. Life does not go along as planned, especially if you don't write down your plans.

22. You need to search for a mentor; they usually don't walk right up to you on their own.

23. Sometimes it's good to reintroduce yourself to a friend and start all over.

24. Anger takes a lot of energy.

25. Not all people are honorable.

26. Food isn't as much fun when you start worrying about the fat content.

27. Size does matter.

28. Sun really does give you wrinkles.

29. Once you pick all the marshmallows out, the cereal isn't all that good.

30. I like familiar things, whether or not I liked them the first round.

31. People complain a lot.

32. When you smile at someone, he or she will usually smile back.

33. When you complain a lot, you're not much fun to be around.

34. Doing is a good thing.

35. You really can throw up in your regulator.

36. Spilling boiling water on yourself really hurts.

37. Mixing beer and champagne is not a good thing.