People you know who have reached considerable levels of achievement

Related to the fame thread but achievement, not fame.

A lot of friends I went to college with have done well for themselves. One girl, who was very mousy and didn't impress me much, was a policy adviser in the Bush administration and had an office right next to the Oval Office. She has since become the director of a program in a prestigious public policy school and is often tapped to be a pundit.

I'm sure this will veer into envy, comparison etc. In the case of this girl I don't think it's envy as I wouldn't want to work for W. (maybe Clinton or Obama) but it makes me think, damn. I'm doing the same shit I was when we graduated and my peers are busting out.

Who do you know that's really reached great heights?

other susan to thread :P

oh wait i didn't see the other thread, whoops

quite a few of my lecturers were fairly successful

...but I didn't know them when they weren't. ask me again in 20 years

A girl who was my intern at my first job is now a psychiatrist in Brussels. It amazes me that she's old enough to have gone that much school. Which only makes me realize how old I am. :/

One of my mom's second cousin or second was the French Prime Minister for a while.

*or something like that, nor ot second