Think how you'd feel if someone called you a "striver."

But for many high school students, spending a month or two on campus is more than a striver's summer camp.

If you've ever been a striver in academia, you'll know why.

"That striver characteristic is not as strong today, and today's students can easily get discouraged."

"He's portrayed as a striver who was willing to follow his beliefs and act on them."

He was, in a way, the future: the meritocratic striver.

The healthy striver has drive, while the Perfectionist is driven.

As a smart striver in his 20s, he was determined to live out the American dream and achieve material success.

As a young striver, he creates his own fantasy world with Playboy.

He lived on Striver's Row and was married with a daughter.

Still, she doesn't come across as a lifelong striver.

He is a type we have seen before - a hyperactive striver in a room full of older folks.

There is still enough encouragement for the ambitious young striver, desperate to make good.

She might, in the language of coalition ministers, be deemed "a striver."

But she's a striver and an optimist with an infectious laugh.

But convincing a lot more people that there's life beyond the 20 or so colleges on the standard striver's shopping list would be even better.

It was also his personality as a family man, earnest striver and all-around nice guy.

The details of Monty's fall from working-class striver to criminal are never filled in.

But her words also filled me with appreciation for her striver ethic.

This week's mission: transform a Queens slacker into a striver.

His story is that of the immigrant striver.

Ms. Klages is a bit of a striver herself.

Or a big project to restore the American commercial spirit and the small-time capitalist striver.

"Those homes are more than just wood," he said of Striver's Row.

Is it any wonder that a pretty young striver like Lee wants a chunk of it?