Did you drop out of highschool?

[DjIgnite]

I dropped out in 2001... I've since gotten a bachelors in finance, and have been accepted into the masters program at NYU's Stern..

 

[pfunk]

I dropped out in 2001... I've since gotten a bachelors in finance, and have been accepted into the masters program at NYU's Stern..

i would venture to guess something like that happens to about
.0000000000000000000000000001% of the people who drop out of high school.

 

[DjIgnite]

i would venture to guess something like that happens to about
.0000000000000000000000000001% of the people who drop out of high school.

That may be true... Looking back though, I see H.S. as being one big waste of time. But then again, I went to a shitty H.S.

 

[Perpetual Indulgence]

High School 1991. BSc 1995. Took 2 years off. MSc 1999.

 

[faithfully dangerous]

i find education to be too sacred of a gift to drop out of any institution of learning willingly. i don't have the self discipline at this point to drop out and continue to learn on my own, either, and i especially don't think any high schooler does (or did at the time), either. unless you were albert einstein. or hitler.

 

[TexasAKS]

I dropped out and got my GED, although when I left I did have a 3.8 gpa and all honors... classes were a joke and I was wasting mine and my teachers time. And to be honest, not one college has said a damn thing about my GED, its all about the sat score which I got a 1460 on. Like someone else said above me, *public* schools in america are a joke.

College is where the real learning is located.

Edit: Thats why I type my papers in word, it does it all for me.

 

[faithfully dangerous]

public schools if you live in an area where public schools are bad. for instance, the south is full of horrible public school systems, especiall the carolinas and georgia. it's impossible to get teachers to stay there bc the systems are in such bad shape. it's sad, really. the systems even pay for teachers' masters, some put down payments on homes so they will stay --- that is how bad it is.

i must say, my public school was always good at giving students challenges and pushing them to go the extra step. independent study programs (of which i was involved in myself) as well as honors and AP courses(also involved in) and the option to take college courses for high school credit(again, but just one class) were some of the many options students who didnt feel challenged in regular courses were given.

unforutunately, many school systems do not have the money or the resources to provide these options to their students.

i'm just the type that once i start something, i have to finish it: regardless of its level of difficulty. high school was a complete joke for the most part, but i still learned a lot, even though i've learned more in a 6 week summer history course than all the history courses i took during my 13 years in the public school system when i was younger.

you are completely right in saying that college is where the real learning is located, though. but you really should take a grammar course or two--- ending a sentence with a preposition?

 

[paradoxcycle]

Graduated from college in 2003.

 

[blahblahblah]

Nope I didn't drop out, graduated with honors [which I still don't know how I pulled that off]. Than received a Assoc. of Sciences and Bach. of Psych. Now I am thinking of attending Columbia College or The Art Institute and getting a degree in Journalism or some field of writing.

I almost got kicked out a few times... and its taken me a long time to get all this school under my belt and I am still not done, nor am I ready to hit the 'real world'.

 

[forgotten]

I got expelled from school in the 6th grade. I had trouble with teachers from that point on. So, I dropped out towards the end of 11th grade. I got my GED the next month. I went to college for a while, but I quit going once I got a decent job. I lost the job, and now I'm back in college. The only thing I regret is not dropping out the day I turned 16.

 

[m885]

I did very poorly in high school, but graduated and just received my AS from a local community college. In two years, I went from being a pathetic student to having a 3.9. In high school, I didn't really feel challenged- my standardized test scores were off the charts but I didn't have any motivation. I'm transferring to the University of Connecticut this fall to finish up undergrad, then onto law school. Community college is the way to go, I have saved about $30,000 by doing my first two years locally.

 

[bingey]

I got expelled 2 months ago , no diploma whatsoever.
But i'm making a fresh start in another country after the summer.

 

[malachi305]

GED crew all the way baby

 

[Khadijah]

you are completely right in saying that college is where the real learning is located, though. but you really should take a grammar course or two--- ending a sentence with a preposition?

Dude. Who gives a fuck.

Honestly, i can never undersatnd people who pull up this shit. I see cats making fun of me, cuz i aint speaking textbook grammar, OK fine. but when it comes to small nitpicking shit like that it just annoys the hell out of me. id dont fuckin matter yo. it really dont.

Number one:
when we are speaking we aint writing a paper. nobody is grading us on grammar. so small details about arcane useless parts of speech that DONT MAKE A DIFFERENCE in the MEANING of what youre saying is flat out just anal. why you people gotta use grammar as a tool to one-up cats on a message board like i see in the Lounge all the time?

Number two:
I dont know if u were jokin or not about the grammar course or two comment, but really,
shit like that has NOTHING TO DO with somebodys intelligence, or learning. especially since every english teacher ive ever had has said how stupid the english language is since its so fuckin full of inconsistencies, contradictions, exceptions, and mad other senseless bullshit that makes it prolly the most un necessarily complex language in most of the world.

there was nothign wrong with what this kid said so shove the preposition up your ass LOL no bad feelings jsut had to say that.

People always bring that shit up, pick apart every last thing somebody said. "OH! HAHAHAHA! YOU USED A past participleistic prepositionary pluralized transient verb extendicator where you should have used a past participleistic prepositionary pluralized INtransient verb extendicator!!! youre stupid!"

If thats how they teach you to act towards other people, about grammatical particulars shit that dont matter, then theres one more reason to add to the feet-long list of why im glad i dropped out.

I know you were joking at least a little so that aint all at you it just sparked that feeling thats been sitting there for a while about all these grammar assholes who just pick out shit to be dicks.

 

[kappadaftie]

But I'm happy to sacrifice a little now and know that by the time I'm in my mid thirties I'll be making upwards of a quarter to a half mill a year.

I'm kinda with you on this one wizekrak, but only to a certain point.

Yes, a good education will provide a much needed helping hand into an already saturated work market, and it is not disputed that graduates earn more in entry level positions than their non-graduate counter-parts.

However, in relation to the comment quoted above, i'm afraid i have to disagree with you there.

Yes a good education will get your 'foot in the door' and start you off on a reasonable salary, but your education is not the vehicle for such an escalation in the heirarchy/financial scale (ie $250,000 to $500,000 as quoted by you). Once you have began work, it is your ability to prove your worth to a comapany which aids your progression, generally not your education.

Therefore, it is not wise to assume that just because you went to university you will continue to rise above those that did not, since you will be competing with others within the corporate environment that took a different route, and some of whom will no doubt be as good as (if not better) than their graduate counterparts.

I work in a profession where the only route in (with a few exceptions) is via 6 years of higher education. But even then, the highest salaries are not awarded to those with the most or best education, but to those that can continually progress within the firm.

Your education is only a basis for your career, for those without they have simply found another way to meet you on level footing within the workplace.

 

[notneo]

lacey your a smart motherfucker

 

[Tylerdurden]

Is it possible really possible to to get a recognized(serious) degree without a high school diploma?What about online for those outside the US?

I quit at the end of 12th grade(in Italy high school goes until 13th), because I was restless and I realized school was slowly killing my curiosity. So I travelled and worked(got plenty real life experience), but now I'd like to progress somewhere and I'm sick of being looked-down on for my lack of formal education. I speak 3 languages and am pretty good at bookkeeping and network security, as well as well-read on classic Italian and English literature, but here I'm just a name, age, sex and education on a job application form.

 

[fizzygirl]

I like this

People always bring that shit up, pick apart every last thing somebody said. "OH! HAHAHAHA! YOU USED A past participleistic prepositionary pluralized transient verb extendicator where you should have used a past participleistic prepositionary pluralized INtransient verb extendicator!!! youre stupid!"

Your ability to use english might not have anything to do with your intelligence, but it will have a lot to do with how people interpret that intelligence and how you're treated in society. It might not exactly be fair, but it's true, and you might not care about it, but it could mean the difference between getting an okay job and getting a better paying job down the line. That being said, how you come across on a druggie internet message board doesn't really indicate how you'd come across in a formal situation where you know something's on the line.

I'd like to consider myself someone with fairly good speaking/writing skills and even I get pissed off when people pick apart what someone's saying/writing over the grammar. Everyone is bound to screw up once in a while, and various "rules" (such as ending a sentence with a preposition) are matters of style that are often argued, and if you're paying that much attention to how someone says something you're possibly missing the whole point of WHAT they had to say to begin with, which doesn't seem very fair.

I think (feel/believe/suggest)
1) a good education is a foundation that everyone should have, regardless of what you want to do in the future
2) there are some really crappy schools out there (public and private) but there are also really good ones (public and private)
3) dropping out OR staying in school doesn't cement your future possibilities. you won't succeed simply because you finished (college either) and you won't fail simply because you didn't. a lot of where you'll end up depends on the will you have and what you put into it. there are always alternate ways to do something
4) if you don't like your high school, most will allow you to do some sort of joint enrollment where you take college classes for high school/college credit, AND they pay for it!

 

[chrissie]

Your ability to use english might not have anything to do with your intelligence, but it will have a lot to do with how people interpret that intelligence and how you're treated in society.

Exactly. Lacey, you say that you type the way that you speak. Would you go into a formal business meeting speaking that way? I know that if I did, people would most likely not take me seriously.

In the same vein, I think that my husband has an advantage with an English accent because everything he says just sounds smarter.

 

[faithfully dangerous]

lol, lacey--- CHILL, GIRL! it was a complete joke--- but english IS my minor so grammatical errors are naturally a pet peeve of mine.