Sorry, Joe, but this has nothing to do with Bill Gates or Mt. Whitney HS.
This list is the work of Charles J. Sykes, author of the book /Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add./ (The list has appeared in newspapers, although not necessarily in this book.) Many versions of this list omit the last three rules:
Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.
Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start
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