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Start here => Free For ALL => Topic started by: Zippo on April 04, 2012, 01:50:08 PM
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the administration hates me for stuff like this. my friend wanted to play minecraft on my server, along with some of his friends.
but the administration has recently blocked the site and the port multiplayer runs on by default
long story short, solution FTP minecraft to my friend, than change my servers open port to 26666 instead of 25565. bingo i have had to reduce the server size to 8 because of network and low upload issues. slots are maxed out as of writing this but that should change to 0 as class goes back in session in about 10 minutes.
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Um. Ok. :thumbup:
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Sorry my Canadian isn't very good is there an American English version of this
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:nerdy:
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Did you drop out of school in the past? Are you going to stay enrolled this time? :orly:
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I dropped out of high school. I had to get a GED to get in the USN. It was a pretty easy test.
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You dropped out of school (college?) because... you wanted to play Minecraft? ::)
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Better than arguing pointlessly with lecturers, at least.
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I finished high school but I failed it and didn't graduate.
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I went to college because my parents had the money saved and because I was able to
do well in school when I applied myself. Well ... I didn't apply myself in college, and
barely graduated on time. Today I work in a kitchen. :dunno:
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I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.
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You dropped out of school (college?) because... you wanted to play Minecraft? ::)
i dropped out of high school partly because the administration hates me.... for doing things like getting around blocks they put up.
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I failed secondary school yet I still got into college through PLC courses. Dunno how it works over the land beyond but I suspect it's similar.
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I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.
How did they let you drop out in seventh grade? I thought you had to be at least 16.
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I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.
How did they let you drop out in seventh grade? I thought you had to be at least 16.
Long story.
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I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.
How did they let you drop out in seventh grade? I thought you had to be at least 16.
Long story.
I would have dropped out too if I had only made it to 7th grade @ 16 years old. :zoinks:
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I fucking hated school I dropped out at the end of year 11. Went to work . Went back and blitzed teh uni entery test. I had done some night courses in college in the meantime and learned how to read and write.....well, better :hahaha:
Did alright at uni but dropped out when i became a father. Went back again but dropped out when i realised i could not support myself and work part time. it was cool at university but my time for uni has passed me.
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Wow. Don't think uni's for me, now, either, though. hd (herp...)
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Looking back, I wish I had tried to learn a trade, might have suited me better. :apondering:
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School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?
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School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?
Nope
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Although people who don't do well academically do manage to do well in 'real' life? I got on much better with the kids at college than before, for that part.....
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Although people who don't do well academically do manage to do well in 'real' life? I got on much better with the kids at college than before, for that part.....
That's what I grew up believing ... that one could either be "book smart" or
"street smart," and that the kids in my school who learned metalworking and office
skills were less bright than I was. Well, it turns out I am not so "book smart" after all.
I was beginning to read by the time I started kindergarten, but I have a tiny attention
span for written material and barely read the newspaper. AND I am ditzy in many of
the "real world" matters as well. So I guess I am a well-rounded ditz. :blonde:
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Um, a balance can be good? I'm a weird mixture, myself!
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Although people who don't do well academically do manage to do well in 'real' life? I got on much better with the kids at college than before, for that part.....
That's what I grew up believing ... that one could either be "book smart" or
"street smart," and that the kids in my school who learned metalworking and office
skills were less bright than I was. Well, it turns out I am not so "book smart" after all.
I was beginning to read by the time I started kindergarten, but I have a tiny attention
span for written material and barely read the newspaper. AND I am ditzy in many of
the "real world" matters as well. So I guess I am a well-rounded ditz. :blonde:
I think many of us fall into a grey area.
I am manually clumsy. Disinterested in technical matters but I have some things I am very good at. Unfortunately I am dyslexic and on the spectrum so finding niches in these grey areas has proved difficult. Who would have imagined that in sales I find a fit. It is not perfect but I work around what i am poor in and excel in what i am good in and with the right company and environment i do exceedingly well.
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Although people who don't do well academically do manage to do well in 'real' life? I got on much better with the kids at college than before, for that part.....
That's what I grew up believing ... that one could either be "book smart" or
"street smart," and that the kids in my school who learned metalworking and office
skills were less bright than I was. Well, it turns out I am not so "book smart" after all.
I was beginning to read by the time I started kindergarten, but I have a tiny attention
span for written material and barely read the newspaper. AND I am ditzy in many of
the "real world" matters as well. So I guess I am a well-rounded ditz. :blonde:
I think many of us fall into a grey area.
I am manually clumsy. Disinterested in technical matters but I have some things I am very good at. Unfortunately I am dyslexic and on the spectrum so finding niches in these grey areas has proved difficult. Who would have imagined that in sales I find a fit. It is not perfect but I work around what i am poor in and excel in what i am good in and with the right company and environment i do exceedingly well.
I am impressed that you do well in sales. Anything customer-oriented that I've done in the
past has gotten on my nerves eventually and I don't think I could work in sales. :apondering:
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Hopefully, nobody thinks there is a 'perfect' environment? We'd be talking about finding the best, overall, fit, right? For work, now, I'd be looking for pretty basic admin, as it seems too late to bother with uni & all that & I'm not that ambitious, in such terms. What are you good at, cbc?
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Um, a balance can be good? I'm a weird mixture, myself!
Yes, the trick is to figure out the components of your own weird mixture and use them
to your advantage! I am actually a solid and valuable employee in my job, and over the
years I have learned how my own assets and deficits fit into the total picture at work.
I'm still a massive underachiever in some people's eyes but the older I get, the less that
bothers me. I do what I can with what I have. 8)
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Oh, plenty think I should be doing much better with my life, too, cbc. Glad you found something that suits you!
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Although people who don't do well academically do manage to do well in 'real' life? I got on much better with the kids at college than before, for that part.....
That's what I grew up believing ... that one could either be "book smart" or
"street smart," and that the kids in my school who learned metalworking and office
skills were less bright than I was. Well, it turns out I am not so "book smart" after all.
I was beginning to read by the time I started kindergarten, but I have a tiny attention
span for written material and barely read the newspaper. AND I am ditzy in many of
the "real world" matters as well. So I guess I am a well-rounded ditz. :blonde:
I think many of us fall into a grey area.
I am manually clumsy. Disinterested in technical matters but I have some things I am very good at. Unfortunately I am dyslexic and on the spectrum so finding niches in these grey areas has proved difficult. Who would have imagined that in sales I find a fit. It is not perfect but I work around what i am poor in and excel in what i am good in and with the right company and environment i do exceedingly well.
I am impressed that you do well in sales. Anything customer-oriented that I've done in the
past has gotten on my nerves eventually and I don't think I could work in sales. :apondering:
It has a lot of very good things.
I am very rational, logical and analytical.
I am confident
I am driven and competitive.
I crave stablity
I work best on my own.
now there are a lot of shit with being an aspie that will fuck with being in a sales job but these traits allow me to work to my own speed amd pretty much my own style and pace. I work longer and harder than probably anyone else there and I get the results. My pitching is a slow affair compared to others and empathy not really a strong suit but the information and no pressure style gels with more peopel and my results justify my conversion rate. I do well enough :)
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Oh, plenty think I should be doing much better with my life, too, cbc. Glad you found something that suits you!
I was lucky to get into a good company. I hope you find something too. :viking:
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Thanks. For what I'm looking for, the communication problems shouldn't make much (if any) difference. Just really need to get started on those for any 'personal' life, though &, of course, it's not a good time to be looking. What do you do, cbc? (derailing?)
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Thanks. For what I'm looking for, the communication problems shouldn't make much (if any) difference. Just really need to get started on those for any 'personal' life, though &, of course, it's not a good time to be looking. What do you do, cbc? (derailing?)
I work in the kitchen of a retirement home, where we prepare daily lunches and dinners
for 90-100 residents, so I do *some* cooking, a lot of prep work, serving and cleaning! :thumbup:
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I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.
How did they let you drop out in seventh grade? I thought you had to be at least 16.
I dropped out in seventh also. We moved and landed in the middle of a teacher's strike when I was 14, that lasted almost the entire school year, then my father ended up needing open heart surgery. We almost lost our home, I lied about my age and got a job as a waitress... something at which I was tremendously bad at. ;)
I had prior problems requiring a home tutor, no one made an issue of it. I think sometimes they see it's in their best interest to enforce the age requirement, and sometimes there are other issues that make it in the best interest of the student that they don't. I think I was the later.
Anyways, finally walked in for my GED test one day when I was around 23, walked out a few hours later with one of the highest scores they had seen in a long time (or so they said ::), I think they just wanted me to enroll in their tech school $$$).
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Thanks. For what I'm looking for, the communication problems shouldn't make much (if any) difference. Just really need to get started on those for any 'personal' life, though &, of course, it's not a good time to be looking. What do you do, cbc? (derailing?)
I work in the kitchen of a retirement home, where we prepare daily lunches and dinners
for 90-100 residents, so I do *some* cooking, a lot of prep work, serving and cleaning! :thumbup:
Quite a combo, needs doing & you seem to enjoy it, so... Great!
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I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.
How did they let you drop out in seventh grade? I thought you had to be at least 16.
Long story.
I would have dropped out too if I had only made it to 7th grade @ 16 years old. :zoinks:
7th grade is hard.
http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf (http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf)
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School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?
Happy minority here. I loved school. I would do it full-time as a career if they would let me. Thought about getting my Masters in English Lit just so I could teach community college for a crappy wage as a way to stay in an educational environment.
Ask me again in three years and I might hate it, but right now I am really looking forward to going back.
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i'm convinced public school is nothing more than a babysitter so parents can go to work. you certianly dont learn anything atleast i didnt
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School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?
Happy minority here. I loved school. I would do it full-time as a career if they would let me. Thought about getting my Masters in English Lit just so I could teach community college for a crappy wage as a way to stay in an educational environment.
Ask me again in three years and I might hate it, but right now I am really looking forward to going back.
You know this is one of those things that i am actually pleased about hearing when I hear about. Like people who have a good relationship with their parents. It is a feeling of "that is the way shit SHOULD happen. Good on them". Dunno if that makes any sense.
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i'm convinced public school is nothing more than a babysitter so parents can go to work. you certianly dont learn anything atleast i didnt
Sounds like a definitive study to me
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I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.
How did they let you drop out in seventh grade? I thought you had to be at least 16.
Long story.
I would have dropped out too if I had only made it to 7th grade @ 16 years old. :zoinks:
7th grade is hard.
http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf (http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf)
I never failed a grade, period. I completed 7th grade, I was around 13 years old.
Well, looks like another fail for the Pentagram Irrelevancy Group. ::)
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I fucking hated school I dropped out at the end of year 11. Went to work . Went back and blitzed teh uni entery test. I had done some night courses in college in the meantime and learned how to read and write.....well, better :hahaha:
Did alright at uni but dropped out when i became a father. Went back again but dropped out when i realised i could not support myself and work part time. it was cool at university but my time for uni has passed me.
In Louisiana if you're 65 or older you can attend a state university tuition free, although you will pay for lab fees and the like. So, maybe your time just hasn't come.
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I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.
How did they let you drop out in seventh grade? I thought you had to be at least 16.
Long story.
I would have dropped out too if I had only made it to 7th grade @ 16 years old. :zoinks:
7th grade is hard.
http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf (http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf)
I never failed a grade, period. I completed 7th grade, I was around 13 years old.
Well, looks like another fail for the Pentagram Irrelevancy Group. ::)
There is a group of people who think Pentagram is irrelevant? :thumbup:
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I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.
How did they let you drop out in seventh grade? I thought you had to be at least 16.
Long story.
I would have dropped out too if I had only made it to 7th grade @ 16 years old. :zoinks:
7th grade is hard.
http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf (http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf)
I never failed a grade, period. I completed 7th grade, I was around 13 years old.
Well, looks like another fail for the Pentagram Irrelevancy Group. ::)
There is a group of people who think Pentagram is irrelevant? :thumbup:
The P.I.G. group is a group of users on I2 who collectively try to convince the rest of the users of this site that whatever I post is irrelevant because of things that I have done in the past, or just because of their intolerance towards me, or their sexual desire to make me squeal.
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:plus:
You do make me laugh sometimes :)
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I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.
How did they let you drop out in seventh grade? I thought you had to be at least 16.
Long story.
I would have dropped out too if I had only made it to 7th grade @ 16 years old. :zoinks:
7th grade is hard.
http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf (http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf)
I never failed a grade, period. I completed 7th grade, I was around 13 years old.
Well, looks like another fail for the Pentagram Irrelevancy Group. ::)
There is a group of people who think Pentagram is irrelevant? :thumbup:
The P.I.G. group is a group of users on I2 who collectively try to convince the rest of the users of this site that whatever I post is irrelevant because of things that I have done in the past, or just because of their intolerance towards me, or their sexual desire to make me squeal.
You are such a ham
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Am I the only here who didn't drop out? I know I would have probably if I didn't get any extra help in school. I mainstreamed special ed and was on the IEP growing up. But I never went to college for a degree. I did take fun classes like Spanish and did art and did slow pitch softball. Then I tried to take a fun course again in 2009 and got kicked out after two classes. I should have asked for an aid and accommodations but I thought I do fine on my own but I forgot about my struggles because I had not been in school for years. But it wasn't the teachers' fault because they could not provide me the help I needed because they had other students in class that also needed help and I needed it constantly.
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I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.
How did they let you drop out in seventh grade? I thought you had to be at least 16.
Long story.
I would have dropped out too if I had only made it to 7th grade @ 16 years old. :zoinks:
7th grade is hard.
http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf (http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf)
I never failed a grade, period. I completed 7th grade, I was around 13 years old.
Well, looks like another fail for the Pentagram Irrelevancy Group. ::)
Feeling hurt over a bit of low grade humor? Do you need a :hug: ?
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Am I the only here who didn't drop out?
Indeed. Good thing you stayed in all the way to perfect your reading and comprehension skills :thumbup:
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I thought school was easy aside from language. I did have some problems at time though with other subject mainly do to disinterest, laziness and being easily distracted. I made it though high school and college without dropping out getting an associates in marine science and BS in environmental biology. While I did good overall in my major due to the problems mentioned above courses that didn't interest me I did enough to pass and that's about it.
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I thought school was easy aside from language. I did have some problems at time though with other subject mainly do to disinterest, laziness and being easily distracted. I made it though high school and college without dropping out getting an associates in marine science and BS in environmental biology. While I did good overall in my major due to the problems mentioned above courses that didn't interest me I did enough to pass and that's about it.
I like to think George Costanza pretended to be a Marine Biologist because of you. :thumbup: :viking:
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I left school at 16 and went to college. My school had a sixth form, but I hated the place
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Am I the only here who didn't drop out?
As I said, I didn't drop out, I just failed. I ended up going to seven different schools which probably didn't help. I failed Years 8 and 9 and probably would have gone to special ed in Year 10 had I not changed schools again and escaped it. Because they had been sending me to the school psych throughout Year 9 to figure out why I was failing.
Then I fast-tracked Year 10 and caught up to everyone else and completed Year 11 normally. But then by Year 12 I had had enough of school and then my friend committed suicide and I no longer wanted to be there even though I did actually go. Year 12 kind of fizzled out.
I could have done the STAT to get into uni but I think I would have failed it. So I did Ontrack which is a program for people with disabilities and/or from low socio-economic backgrounds to enable them to get into uni. It taught me about uni rules, how to write an essay, how to reference, how to do internet searches properly, etc. I think I would definitely have had a hard time at uni if I didn't do Ontrack first.
Also, for those people who think it is too late for uni, I believe it never is. I am 35 and heaps older than the majority at uni but I am not looked down upon because of it. Because I have had more life experiences, that is an advantage.
After this degree I am thinking of doing another at a different uni. I really like psychology but I also like to work with things so I want to learn medical imaging.
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School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?
Happy minority here. I loved school. I would do it full-time as a career if they would let me. Thought about getting my Masters in English Lit just so I could teach community college for a crappy wage as a way to stay in an educational environment.
Ask me again in three years and I might hate it, but right now I am really looking forward to going back.
I did pretty well in school also.
If you find that you don't like being a lawyer, IMO, you should get a Ph. D. and be a university professor instead of teaching in a community college if you like the academic environment.
My husband has been a professor and he also taught for a while in a community college as a part-time second job. I think he became frustrated because he was sort of expected to give passing grades to students who couldn't be bothered to do the work.
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School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?
Happy minority here. I loved school. I would do it full-time as a career if they would let me. Thought about getting my Masters in English Lit just so I could teach community college for a crappy wage as a way to stay in an educational environment.
Ask me again in three years and I might hate it, but right now I am really looking forward to going back.
I did pretty well in school also.
If you find that you don't like being a lawyer, IMO, you should get a Ph. D. and be a university professor instead of teaching in a community college if you like the academic environment.
My husband has been a professor and he also taught for a while in a community college as a part-time second job. I think he became frustrated because he was sort of expected to give passing grades to students who couldn't be bothered to do the work.
Didn't want to spend all my time in the politics of the university system. Publish or perish, etc.
If I don't like practicing as a lawyer I am SOL considering the debt load I am taking on to get this degree. :GA:
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School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?
Happy minority here. I loved school. I would do it full-time as a career if they would let me. Thought about getting my Masters in English Lit just so I could teach community college for a crappy wage as a way to stay in an educational environment.
Ask me again in three years and I might hate it, but right now I am really looking forward to going back.
I did pretty well in school also.
If you find that you don't like being a lawyer, IMO, you should get a Ph. D. and be a university professor instead of teaching in a community college if you like the academic environment.
My husband has been a professor and he also taught for a while in a community college as a part-time second job. I think he became frustrated because he was sort of expected to give passing grades to students who couldn't be bothered to do the work.
Didn't want to spend all my time in the politics of the university system. Publish or perish, etc.
If I don't like practicing as a lawyer I am SOL considering the debt load I am taking on to get this degree. :GA:
Good points, both about the politics of the university system and about the debt. You probably will wind up with a lot of debt even with the financial package you were offered. Are you working full time and going to school full time too?
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School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?
Happy minority here. I loved school. I would do it full-time as a career if they would let me. Thought about getting my Masters in English Lit just so I could teach community college for a crappy wage as a way to stay in an educational environment.
Ask me again in three years and I might hate it, but right now I am really looking forward to going back.
I did pretty well in school also.
If you find that you don't like being a lawyer, IMO, you should get a Ph. D. and be a university professor instead of teaching in a community college if you like the academic environment.
My husband has been a professor and he also taught for a while in a community college as a part-time second job. I think he became frustrated because he was sort of expected to give passing grades to students who couldn't be bothered to do the work.
Didn't want to spend all my time in the politics of the university system. Publish or perish, etc.
If I don't like practicing as a lawyer I am SOL considering the debt load I am taking on to get this degree. :GA:
Good points, both about the politics of the university system and about the debt. You probably will wind up with a lot of debt even with the financial package you were offered. Are you working full time and going to school full time too?
The American Bar Association (which accredits all law schools) forbids first year full-time law students from working more than 20 hours a week (they highly recommend fewer than 10). As I am the sole earner for a family of 4, we would all starve in a refrigerator box if I started working part time. Therefore I am forced to go to law school part-time and work full-time. This means 4 years including summers (24 credits a year) instead of 3 years with summers off (30 credits a year).
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...I work around what i am poor in and excel in what i am good in and with the right company and environment i do exceedingly well.
That's the key right there.
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...I work around what i am poor in and excel in what i am good in and with the right company and environment i do exceedingly well.
That's the key right there.
This is worth bumping. It's good advice. :thumbup:
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What if you don't excel in anything?
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What if you don't excel in anything?
Are you looking outside the academic frame of reference? I think everyone is great at something. :viking:
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Anything. Academic or not.
Sure, I have a degree but my grades were mediocre. 80% was my highest. Outside of academia there's nothing.
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Anything. Academic or not.
Sure, I have a degree but my grades were mediocre. 80% was my highest. Outside of academia there's nothing.
What makes you happiest? What do you most love to do?
There's where you might find undiscovered gifts. :)
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Well, after graduating with a Bachelor of Psychology I went to Tafe college and got a Certificate III in IT. That didn't get me a job either.
So now I work part-time as a cleaner, sanitizing office spaces and a kids gym. I'm paid well though.
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I kinda cruised thru high school and dropped out of an engineering degree. I had zero study skills.
Kinda stumbled into an IT traineeship and 36 years later still in IT. It was a different world, even with qualifications it's almost impossible to get a start in IT now.