Poll: grades or relationship?

[Manicotti]

i've known people who chose relationships over grades, and they dropped out of college, have huge amounts of debt, live with their parents with a part-time job, and still have no idea what they want out of an alleged "soul mate" other than being good in bed.

on the other hand, two of my best friends dropped out of high school (before knowing each other), eventually got together, and have a home and reasonably strong financial independence.

personally, i don't think dropping school for anything is a good move, or at least putting your grades at unnecessary risk, but then i guess it depends what contingency plans you have in case things go to shit.

 

[Teachingaddict]

lol, i'm almost having a heart attack at the thought of someone choosing a relationship over grades. Grades mean a future and a life for yourself, no matter how many people think they don't need grades. Anyway, if a girl demands that much time and knows the boy needs to work but doesnt give a stuff, then she doesnt deserve him anyway. Or vice versa

 

[plagueflames]

if its a true love relationship, and as close to forever as possible, then a relationship all the way. if not, grades cant hurt.

 

[Abedeus]

Grades are long-term and stay on your record, affecting going to college, which affects your job, which affects your income, which affects your love life. Relationships come and go. Or come and stay until divorce/death. So, grades. But you shouldn't need to choose.

Really? They don't affect anything in Poland. Maybe except the subjects most important to you, but why should you care about Chemistry if you are going to a law school?

 

[Glerken]

Wait, some people don't have both?

 

[Rusty Bucket]

The Bucket senses gaming discussion may be the wrong forum for this.

 

[Kingsman]

Wait, some people don't have both?

[sarcasm]Ha! Ha! Ha! I am beside myself after witnessing your rambunctious display of wit and cleverness![/sarcasm]

Seriously, relationships are things which tend to break up over time, regardless if it's over months, years, or decades.

Grades will follow you like a hawk, and shape the early years of your life. Do NOT fall for the trap that lies behind the curtains.

And curtains is clearly a metaphor for relationships and nothing else in that sentence.

 

[supermaster1337]

is it better to be the highest rank in your class in high school and be without a relationship your whole highschool carreer or to have a relationship and have average grades?

I dont have this problem, but a friend of mine does. and i couldnt tell him which was better. Need ideas to tell him please. He is a very lonely person.

Irrelevant. I would have way better grades if I had someone to motivate me; I'm suspended for a semester for having failed too many classes ever since it dawned on me how alone I was.

So are you saying that if you have a girlfriend you will do better on grades?

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Why can't one have both? If the case is I can't study and make out at the same time, like Chris Redfield is with walking and aiming, I'll get my grades, then go to a bar, and hit on first good looking chick walking past me. Cause without grades, I'll end up poor and homeless, and I don't think any girl would go through the problem of taking care of me. But still, why can't one have both? Just because you've got the brains doesn't mean you can't have the looks and charisma.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Both. Back when I was in High School I managed to be one of the lucky ones and keep a balance between both. It's not worth sacrificing one for the other.

 

[iggyus]

Grades are for a life and are permanent. A relationship is not most of the time

 

[FredFredburgur]

I think having a relationship, it will prepare you better for social interactions in the future, or you may even possibly falling in love with this persona and whole romance story goes in. Also yeah being number one in the class is impressive and all but if you aren't it doesn't prevent you from getting into a good college, if you're in high school, or getting a good job, if you're in college, but I'm in high school and don't really care about my grades, which I usually get A's or B's and a C, and don't have a girlfriend.

 

[deathless14]

i think that good grades ar very importantant. but overall IDK

 

[WilliamWhite1]

I pick grades, but only because they directly affect pay in the U.S. I'm sure some would argue that your relationships (gemeinshaft or otherwise) can net you more cash in the long run, but gambling on your relationships doesn't seem like a good idea, if you ask me.

Call me greedy, but motivation due to cash is my outlet. If a degree directly effects my ability to make cash, that's what I'll take. And the relationships I make in the process should only serve to help. If they don't, then I must have seriously made some serious mistake. But that's another story altogether.

 

[angel34]

I have a agreement that if my relationship gets in the way of the exams [ mine or hers ] we would break up as we both know who important grades are to us.

 

[Danzaivar]

who cares about grads?! when you die what do you want to say "well i had A+++ in all subjects" or "well i lived and loved"??
if you chose option number one you need to re-evaluate your life!

Spoken like a true teenager.

Grades all the way. If a relationship in School is such a huge deal in later life, you can lie about encounters with the opposite sex to your work mates. Lying to your potential employers about your Results/GPA will be a LOT harder.

 

[Rahnzan]

Holy crap does anyone here live in the real world? Look guys, school ends at one point. High grades may mean something if you're one of those scholastics who really needs to get into Harvard but otherwise grades mean shit in the real world. Only certificates and how you handle the job interview mean anything.

Go ahead be a dead log all the way through highschool, date no one. Not everyone needs a relationship to be happy but if you're like 90% of the teenage population, you do. Years later you'll be looking back at highschool the prime of your life in a 5 to 9 job at a place like 7/11 with perfect As thinking 'wow...I'm going to die a virgin.'

Socialize and network while you f***ing can. Once you're out of school, that's it. It'll be just you and whoever you had the good common decency to write down the phone number of. Grades are a good thing to have but dont be a lifeless husk alright?

 

[dalek sec]

Good grades, they last forever while a relationship will turn to dust sooner or later.

 

[roboosh]

get an A at relationships

 

[supermaster1337]

Holy crap does anyone here live in the real world? Look guys, school ends at one point. High grades may mean something if you're one of those scholastics who really needs to get into Harvard but otherwise grades mean shit in the real world. Only certificates and how you handle the job interview mean anything.

Go ahead be a dead log all the way through highschool, date no one. Not everyone needs a relationship to be happy but if you're like 90% of the teenage population, you do. Years later you'll be looking back at highschool the prime of your life in a 5 to 9 job at a place like 7/11 with perfect As thinking 'wow...I'm going to die a virgin.'

wow very nice. great example (being serious)