Senior in high school, plan on going to university, although it appears as if that is not an option... Hmm.
Poll: How much education did you get?
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Seems like I get to be this first in this thread to proudly announce... Dropped out at 16 after months with a counselor my school brought in to figure out what to do with me.(Consistently high test scores, Maybe 10 homework assignments ever turned in) he convinced me to leave and just start working. So I got the good ol G.E.D and started working. One of the best decisions of my life.
I wanted to be a cook and now I'm one of the most well compensated cooks in the entire city.
I wanted to be a cook and now I'm one of the most well compensated cooks in the entire city.
I have a masters. I make a decent living but not the kind of money one would expect someone with a 6 year degree to make. The idea is that later down the road I'll be getting promoted to competitive positions. Hell, It's already caused me to get promoted twice in two years.
Currently in high school taking every college class possible, plan on attending college for a Bachelor's in Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics (essentially they're all the same degree) and eventually a doctorate in Astrophysics (hoping to attend CalTech).
And if you'll notice, those who dropped out of high school or college and became famous did so because they came up with that very idea that gave them their success while in school, and realized more schooling would only get in the way of that idea.
High school dropouts who did so because "they just didn't like school" or for some other reason tend to ear far, far less income than graduates.
And if you'll notice, those who dropped out of high school or college and became famous did so because they came up with that very idea that gave them their success while in school, and realized more schooling would only get in the way of that idea.
High school dropouts who did so because "they just didn't like school" or for some other reason tend to ear far, far less income than graduates.
I just finished high school last year and I'm currently in the middle of my first semester in college.
Dropped out in 9th grade.
I couldn't stand being in school.
The constant bullying from not only students but teachers made it nearly impossible to attend and I regularly would just leave anyway.
I stopped going and went for my GED when I was 14.
Completed it without any issue and was out of school for 4 years and just studied on my own time.
I swear, I've learned more in the past 4 years on my own than I ever did in school.
I've gone to one semester of college so far and... well it seems quite shite so not sure how much longer this will last but we'll see.
Oh and as said before.....
I couldn't stand being in school.
The constant bullying from not only students but teachers made it nearly impossible to attend and I regularly would just leave anyway.
I stopped going and went for my GED when I was 14.
Completed it without any issue and was out of school for 4 years and just studied on my own time.
I swear, I've learned more in the past 4 years on my own than I ever did in school.
I've gone to one semester of college so far and... well it seems quite shite so not sure how much longer this will last but we'll see.
Oh and as said before.....
Don't forget the massive amounts of writers that go on that list too.CrazyCapnMorgan said:
Three Masters degrees, starting a Ph.D in 2012. Not that anyone cares, but OP said to elaborate...
I have a high school diploma that I got from an adult ed centre, and I currently work in a position that requires a masters with no negative repercussions. Seriously I explain plant biology to plenty of people with degrees and most of our Ag-business graduates think I'm some sort of genius because i know what DNA stands for.
Started Community College to make up what I lacked for Uni had to drop out for financial reasons went back a few years ago to a trade school graduated for massage therapy. Want to go back and do something with Cultural Anthropology and do a double major Sociology and Psychology in the study of Criminology and if I can narrow it focus it on serial killers because they are absolutely fascinating.
Highschool dropout... social reasons, including family problems, getting into fights all the time, almost killing a classmate... fun times.
to the point where i absolutely became burned out and went BLARGH.. then oddly enough a few years later became a teacher in science which i did throughout school and uni.. and then IT as well just because its been a hobby all my life
Secondary school, two months of a biotech Bsc. and currently working an undergraduate degree in Wildlife Biology.
That might change if our lovely government decides that it's easier to pay unemployment benefit for thousands of dropouts by cutting academic grants [Ireland, by the way]. I think there's talk of abolishing grants for postgrads, which really goes against these plans they have for fostering scientific research.
I'm hoping there'll be some riots.
That might change if our lovely government decides that it's easier to pay unemployment benefit for thousands of dropouts by cutting academic grants [Ireland, by the way]. I think there's talk of abolishing grants for postgrads, which really goes against these plans they have for fostering scientific research.
I'm hoping there'll be some riots.
The colledge dropout argument is quite silly. Lucky is the wrong word. These people worked hard and got to a good academic place, they used that to make contacts that offered them more than academia so they dropped out but they already got everything they needed out of schooling. In the case of Mark Zukerberg it was the contacts to make his company and in bill gates case the group of technical people required to invent microsoft. Dropping out with nothing to show for it then using that argument is contradictory. You have to know what you are doing, for those people even though they had a contacts and such dropping out was a gamble. If you don't have contacts dropping wont take you far.Blargh McBlargh said:
Going on my last year of high school now, with any luck I'll start with nanotech at Lund University. Can't wait as everything seems awesome. I want to learn how the fuck they're planning on accelerating neutrons. Like in depth, not just "pull this lever". We'll see how far I go, but anyway... SCIENCE.