Microeconomics

I'm only taking 14 credit hours this quarter, but I'm taking Microeconomics. I've NEVER taken an economics class. The professor was pretty tough in our first class period, and really stressed the point that we are not children, we need to suck it up and be mature adults. This is what he wrote in his syllabus:

"In his book, Bill Gates sets forth a number of rules that young people need to understand in order to avoid failure in the real world. Since our purpose at WWC is to prepare you for this world, these rules apply to this course. THey include:

1. Life is not fair; get used to it
2. The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
3. If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
4. If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
5. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not...
6. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."

Then the prof went on to write in the syllabus: "Many students come to college demanding to be treated as adults, but retain the option of acting like children when it is convenient. In this class you will be treated like adults."

Holy wow. I'm competative by nature, so this prof seems intimidating to me, but I'm up for the challenge to prove to myself and him that I can make an A in his class, in spite of his rhetoric of toughness.