get my GED, go to the state college this fall (skip senior year of high school) and get the hell out of there too in a few years. it's really tempting, because I wouldn't learn fucking shit in school next year anyway and even though I could go to a slightly better school if I did, I'll never get into like the top top TOP upper echelon of high schools because I hate kissing ass (which is fine with me), plus I think you can get the same education anywhere.

 

 

then I could motor on through grad school and get out three years earlier and be free throughout most of my twenties. jesus how good would that be.

 

I mean I could basically go for close to free at the state school here. There's almost nothing stopping me. at all. so yeah. just keeping you all posted.

 

Thoughts?

hmm. goodluck with that. where are your MIT plans?

Wait aren't you in some super duper smart school right now? What year are you in?

 

Don't drop out, that would make me sad. It might seem like a good idea to get ahead quicker but, mmm, I'm not sure as if it would really add up that way in the long run.

^I'd have to agree. I think it'd be best to stay in school. Just because I think in the future employers might not like to see that you got your GED rather than a High School diploma. And if anything perhaps staying in school and doing extremely well can boost your GPA. I dunno... I could understand why you'd want to leave, but I'd personally stick with it.

You're planning to go to MIT? :stunned:

 

:dazzled:

hmm. goodluck with that. where are your MIT plans?

Lol, I would never get in.

Wait aren't you in some super duper smart school right now? What year are you in?

 

Don't drop out, that would make me sad. It might seem like a good idea to get ahead quicker but, mmm, I'm not sure as if it would really add up that way in the long run.

I'm not in a smart school, I'm in a smartish program, but I'm not learning anything and I hate it. I would learn more by myself when I don't have to waste time doing busywork. And I would go straight to college early directly after.

^I'd have to agree. I think it'd be best to stay in school. Just because I think in the future employers might not like to see that you got your GED rather than a High School diploma. And if anything perhaps staying in school and doing extremely well can boost your GPA. I dunno... I could understand why you'd want to leave, but I'd personally stick with it.

 

but I'll have gone to college and nobody cares about high school.

 

You're planning to go to MIT? :stunned:

 

:dazzled:

 

No, I was/am planning to apply, big difference.

Oh. Well yeah, it's really hard to get admitted to MIT. :nod: But if you're smart enough, why not give it a try? :wacko:

 

Anyway, I suck at giving out advice, hence I can only wish you all the best. I've been at your place before, decision-making sucks. :shifty: I hope any path that you're gonna choose later will give you the best, brightest future. :hug:

thanks. I just don't know what I'm doing with my life and I don't want to keep half-assing everything because it's just such a waste of fucking time.

 

edit: but I don't know how to not half ass anything :bigcry:

 

I just wanted to learn this one piano piece that I really like and I haven't had time to practice all year but I wanted to start again and I went downstairs to try to learn it and my dad after a few minutes was just literally like "why are you doing this, you're not a pianist so why are you wasting your time just dicking around at the piano trying to learn something when you aren't an artist or a musician or anything like that" and I just realized he's totally right and all I ever do is just want to be good at something and sort of try but never really try hard enough and high school's exactly like that and I just :bigcry: I just don't want to waste anyone's time, not any of my friends' or my teachers' and especially not my own D:

 

like I want to be good at stuff but I never really try hard enough to actually be good at it and I just don't know what I am doinnnnnng with my life aughhhhh

^ I wanted to take piano lessons when I was younger but my parents wouldn't let me for the same reason (and because they said it would cost too much) so :hug:.

(Nowz Iz teach myself to playz Like Spinning Platez and Fog and shitz likez thatz for funz.)

 

 

If you stayed in high school how many more years do you have?

Drop out, start a revolution!

It'll fail though.

^ I wanted to take piano lessons when I was younger but my parents wouldn't let me for the same reason (and because they said it would cost too much) so :hug:.

(Nowz Iz teach myself to playz Like Spinning Platez and Fog and shitz likez thatz for funz.)

 

 

If you stayed in high school how many more years do you have?

 

one.

 

I don't want to do piano seriously, I just want to do it for fun but my dad said that there's no point to half-assing something as important as music and I think he's actually right and I just don't want to waste everybody's timeee :bigcry:

one.

ONE more year?

 

Stay in school.

 

Fin.

it's either one more shitty year of high school and four years at a pretty good college or no more shitty years of high school and like 2.5-3 years at a slightly worse but still pretty good college.

 

i don't know. i just don't fucking know.

May I ask what each of the "pretty good" and "slightly worse but still pretty good" colleges you are referring to?

Well I have a fairly good chance of getting accepted into a school like Washington University or Universityof Chicago which are actually quite good and I would probably would get enough money to not be in huge massive debt all the time afterward, but I could also just go to the University of Kentucky (best school in my state for most things) for essentially free and get out in a few years. and I think if I work hard at UofK I can get exactly the same education as I would at Wash U/U Chicago but not have to pay as much or go through as much bullshit.

Go with your instincts and do what you feel is right for you. There's no point in continuing with something you don't like. Life's too short.;)

In my opinion, take your time honestly.

 

Before I finished high school getting a 4 year degree seemed like such a long time. Plus a secondary program, I would be looking at 6+ That sounded crazy to me.

 

Now, I don't even mind. Time passes so fast in uni. I'm gonna be completely happy with 6 or so years sounds great to me. 4 years would have been too short.

 

So my advice is not to rush through school. Cause you might change your mind about the future and its harder to change your plan if you're rushing through. Also it passes by fast enough without the rushing, trust me.

I think we should adapt to society, the papers diplomas are more important than knowledge of a individual person .

 

for me part the expertise and knowledge to be

me was a student of human relations, management but I stopped. theories newsrooms, bored me.

 

I know what you mean, ex : a classical musician could not read musical notes but became a great composer,

or Einstein was in school a :dunce:

 

I can only give you some advice, important to think about your future career and still be realistic in your choices. how the changing job market. trades.... how will change the world.

 

 

 

highlight know everything you know to succeed in life, Good luck :thumbsup:

^true facts lory, thanks for the advice. :nice:

I think we should adapt to society

 

All society does is turn people into "robots".:dozey:

Correct. then we must choose wisely and be happy in life, and not become a robot to adapt

Correct. then we must choose wisely and be happy in life, and not become a robot to adapt

 

Agreed. Robots suck!:smug:

Well I have a fairly good chance of getting accepted into a school like Washington University or Universityof Chicago which are actually quite good and I would probably would get enough money to not be in huge massive debt all the time afterward, but I could also just go to the University of Kentucky (best school in my state for most things) for essentially free and get out in a few years. and I think if I work hard at UofK I can get exactly the same education as I would at Wash U/U Chicago but not have to pay as much or go through as much bullshit.

So, you already know what kind of degree(s) you would want in either situation?

 

What about maybe sticking out your last year in high school, and since you're essentially not being challenged even in your advanced classes, simultaneously take some college courses (even if it's online)? Then you can transfer those classes to one of the better schools, and have a similar time frame as if you had not done your last year of high school and gone to UofK, since you'll already have some college credits under your belt. (If that makes sense.)

That might be what I do, but it isn't even that I'm unchallenged, it's that the busywork is too suffocating to let me do much of anything else on top of being unchallenged... >.>

College asks you a high school degree, so you're going to need it eventually. In case you don't need it for college, not having a high school degree can affect your profesional resumé. Of course unless you become an entrepeneur or do research/whatever you do all by yourself.