I'm talking, of course, about graduation, when four years of hard work supposedly pays off in a piece of paper that reminds you how smart you are. First, try to avoid the real world as much as possible. Be sure to watch Rodney Dangerfield's commencement speech at the end of Back to School for more details. Graduate school is a good way to do so and acquire a heapin' amount of debt. If you're lucky, you end up with a bottom-rung job working for peanuts.
Hard work pays off, so expect to do a lot of it.
Hold on to your youthful idealism. There are times when it's gonna be tested, when you find that you may have to compromise, and that you find yourself being pushed into new vistas. I wasn't one of them, because I did what felt right to me. I was true to who I was. And also, avoid Pokemon like the plague.