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Should i go to college

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ECGove
Posts: 1947 - Karma: 75
i'm 17 and my parents are all over me going to college, but i really don't want to go. at this point i'm sick of school and i just want to go skiing all the time. any advice would be great.
Dec 4 2006 9:14PM
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Homebrewer19
Posts: 346 - Karma: 11
ay, you learn a hell of a lot more outside of class than you do in lectures. Uni is a vacation compared to high school. I've worked as a laborer every summer, and most school days off, since i was 12, and i can tell you mate, they don't call it back braking physical labor for nothing.
Dec 5 2006 12:10PM
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hype
Posts: 1440 - Karma: 21
If you have your head on straight, It will be alot more than two million dollars. Thats not even that much money in the long run....
Dec 5 2006 12:51PM
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ECGove
Posts: 1947 - Karma: 75
yeah... not in maine
Dec 5 2006 10:01PM
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sniper_6
Posts: 1919 - Karma: 1,573
forget college, drop out of high school tomorrow and shoot the heroine directly into your eyeball.
Dec 5 2006 11:32PM
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JaphyRyder
Posts: 1766 - Karma: 113
I'm only 17 so Im obviouly not speaking from experience. Still, I cant wait to go. Just think about all the partys, girls, sports, etc youd miss if you didnt go. If you go in VT or CO or something, than there's not reason why you cant spend lots of days on the hill. I would say go for it.
Dec 6 2006 5:53PM
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t-roy
Posts: 4041 - Karma: 52
you learn a lot more at college that just stuff from classrooms. definitely go, you won't regret it.
Dec 6 2006 7:29PM
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Republican_Enemy
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yes you should. You dont want to regret it
Dec 6 2006 7:31PM
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petek
Posts: 8762 - Karma: 12
Its like asking whether you should become a suicide bomber, sure it has perks, but if you dont "know" if its the right thing dont fucking do it!
That is my attitude while studying for exams, i may have a different attitude in 2 weeks.
Dec 6 2006 9:49PM
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i-like-to-ride
Posts: 17 - Karma: 10
Fuck yes. When you are at college you can get drunk on your parents dime and not have to work. Its the perfect life.
Dec 7 2006 12:52AM
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NevWild
Posts: 249 - Karma: 172
Dude just look at the numbers. Only 26% of the population has a 4 year degree or better. And that degree means an extra 20,000 a year. That means that if you go to college you are better qualifed than 74% of the people in America for jobs that pay a shitload more. It seems like its a lot of work now, but it gives you a lot more options in the end, just because you have a silly piece of paper and 4 more years in school. I say go for it just to keep your options open in life, i mean whats it gonna hurt?
Dec 7 2006 1:21AM
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k2yeags
Posts: 2320 - Karma: 27
dude think of it like this.

First of all you are not going to become a pro skier. So what are you left with? If you don't go to college your chances of getting a good job go way down, this means you will be stuck working bad hours and you will neither have the time nor the money to ski. If you go to college you may do well enough to actually start a career. At first a career will blow because you will have to mold your life around it, but if you stick with it eventually you will gain the freedom to mold it around you, and you will then have both the time and the money for skiing. And you will be able to spend time teaching your kids how to ski.

But really discard everything i just said and don't even bother applying, because without you my chances of getting into school go up!
Dec 7 2006 1:35AM
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skier_boy26
Posts: 11295 - Karma: 502
probably about 2 years ago, when i was 17 as well, i really, and i mean i really hated high school, so I had really no ambition to go to college. I thought I should, but I really didn't want to. Then I took up running start (a program to attend community college instead of high school) and that was rad. It was completely different. And universities are way different. Its a toss up sometimes, but high school and college are nothing alike really, so you'd probably like it, because it is a much more expanded experience. Of course some people make it just fine without a degree. But it makes thing much more difficult. A nice degree gets into specialized professions, which could mean more flexability in life. I know I contemplated with ski bumming, but so far the university path seems to be a good one. Not to mention its not too difficult to ski over 100 days (although I dont know how easy that would be in Maine). But if you dread going to school in maine, try to expand the options. If you must, maybe take a year and try to apply for schools you would want to attend. Its good shit
Dec 7 2006 1:37AM
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Doobie22
Posts: 1330 - Karma: 10
Take a year off, work a bunch, ski a ton. That's what I did and after a year of working boring jobs I realized that I really needed to go to college. If you do that though, you should apply now and then just defer a year.
Dec 7 2006 1:53AM
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MLB
Posts: 4462 - Karma: 298
im going to college....im here to get the skillz to get the skrilla to pay da billz.....


freestyle nigga.
Dec 7 2006 1:55AM
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XxLibertYxX
Posts: 1452 - Karma: 28
yeah do it man... live off your parents the rest of your life... accomplish nothing and make 7.50$ an hour... it will be fun... ski all the time... dude damnit.. i should have done that! what was i thinking!
Dec 7 2006 2:11AM
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Scratch-tape
Posts: 23 - Karma: 10
yeah man. i am currently in my year off. just graduated from highschool and taking a year off and skiing tons. wooh record snowfall for whistler bitches. anyway. as much as i love skiing and living on my own. working in boring dead end jobs really arent that appealing. one day u wont have skiing but u'll still have ure dead end job. go to college man. i know i am. plus all the girls who were too pompous to give it up in highschool are there. and now they're giving it out like its girls gone wild.
Dec 7 2006 2:18AM
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BobYohan
Posts: 3001 - Karma: 375
its 2 in the morning, its snowing out, and im in the library where i will be for the next 2 weeks studying for exams. booo school yaayy skiing.
Dec 7 2006 2:20AM
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D-Sizzle
Posts: 151 - Karma: 10
not going to school and becoming a ski bum is an awesome way to end up in the hospital with some ridiculous injury and no health insurance and $500 in your back account. College opens so many doors: if you go to a school near mountains you will be able to ski a ton and then you will be able to get a sick job in or near a ski town with an actualy salary and actual benifits. Don't try to become a graphic designer, 1/2 of the people on this site have this crazy idea in their head that the ski industry needs a shit ton of graphic designers and there is a huge shortage of them. you will not find work in the ski industry. go to a hotel and management school and become a manager at a slopeside hotel in whistler or something.
Dec 7 2006 2:21AM
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hype
Posts: 1440 - Karma: 21
you my friend are a fucking idiot. I am going to college so i dont have to work 9-5 for the rest of my life. People who go to school and want to succeed, do it right and dont get stuck in that work schedule you are talking about. You make that life sound so horrible. Well you know what? that life is what your parents did so that you could be where you are today. I'm not saying that money is everything, but you gotta wake up. Our middle class is disapearing, that means your either rich or poor. Lets grab a beer in 30 years and see how happy your are with your decision. I'm not saying you wont be, but why not go to school for four or even two years, get to know some cool people, learn some real world knowledge, and have an education to fall back on in case you realize that you dont want to be a dishwasher your whole life. Why work at the store, when you can own the store. Its possible with education.
READ THE BOOK "RICH DAD POOR DAD" by robert kyiosaki.
Dec 7 2006 3:38PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
College would seem to make more sense in the long run. Plus you can apply for the college discount on a sason pass. Go to a school where you can ski as well. I'm 17 too and I'm goin to college. You pay for the experience as much as the school I've heard.
Dec 7 2006 3:41PM
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StevenSegal
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Dude to each his own, how dare you judge that kids life. He wants to do what makes him happy, I give him mad respect for that. You chose to go to college, because i assume it makes you happy, so i give YOU mad respect for that. Life is a one way street and theres no turning back, but that doesn't mean everyones on the same road, they all go to the same place, it's just a matter of how you choose to get there.
Dec 7 2006 4:12PM
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ecsm.
Posts: 1381 - Karma: 532
take a yar or 2 off between high school and college and if your not doing good then go to college
Dec 7 2006 4:14PM
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Kornn101
Posts: 3534 - Karma: 25
he had every right to judge because the person he was judging actually JUDGED everyone else

the point about going to college to wor a 5-6 job and hating life, are u kidding? what a rediculous generalization. he obviously doesnt know the half of it so he should shut his fucking mouth

my opinion of course.
Dec 7 2006 6:09PM
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EastCoastGlory
Posts: 213 - Karma: 10
go.. i just got into columbia... education is soo important
Dec 7 2006 6:14PM
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ECGove
Posts: 1947 - Karma: 75
do you want a fucking medal or something?
Dec 7 2006 6:43PM
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watchmefall15
Posts: 1902 - Karma: 11
go to uc boulder, smoke dank, ski, and take the bare minimum of courses
Dec 7 2006 6:44PM
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JNix.
Posts: 645 - Karma: 12
good luck paying for skiing with $9 an hour
Dec 7 2006 6:49PM
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mski
Posts: 4791 - Karma: 3,803
skiing is expensive and unless your last name is hall, you wont be skiing alot if you dont go.
Dec 7 2006 7:14PM
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EastCoastGlory
Posts: 213 - Karma: 10
thatd be nice... but id rather see you go to college... even if its community college, it ll really help you to be ready for the real world of jobs... and  a good job means a shitload of skiing
Dec 7 2006 8:54PM
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DeSena
Posts: 4126 - Karma: 1,352
no dude dont go! live on the streets, thats how i do
Dec 7 2006 8:57PM
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leckett1
Posts: 6476 - Karma: 294
well for one thats cool if you want a shitty job you dont like for the rest of your life...
Dec 7 2006 9:07PM
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siversex
Posts: 1254 - Karma: 16
are you doing this right now? are you in a low wage job right now, or are you in high school thinking you will be?
cause if your in high school, how do you know your right?
Dec 7 2006 9:17PM
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siversex
Posts: 1254 - Karma: 16
ever looked at a booter and you werent sure if it was the right thing? if you dont go for it, youll never know, and youll get nowhere.
Dec 7 2006 9:29PM
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justinm
Posts: 1219 - Karma: 26
GO TO SCHOOL MAN, YOU WILL REGRET IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
Dec 7 2006 9:45PM
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Capt.Flannel
Posts: 10928 - Karma: 36
on second thought... don't go; leave all the good career opportunities for people who actually want them.
Dec 7 2006 10:27PM
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Jib_This
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Do you wanna stress the fuck out for 4 years straight, except in the summer, when you'll slave away at some shitty, unfulfilling "internship" where you'll learn 2343245435 ways to order the same goddamn drink at Starbucks?

Do you want to abuse your body by not sleeping for days at a time studying and writing papers, only to go out after it's all done and get ridiculously wasted on gut-rot liquor?

Do you want to have at least 1 STD scare, and lots of shitty drunken sex?

Do you think you can handle only skiing 20, 40, maybe 60 days a year on a cheap student pass?

Do you want absolutely no supervision at all, so you can do pretty much whatever, whenever?

If so, go to college. If not, uh, don't?

Take a year off though. Go skiing. Or surfing. Anything but school. Fuck, volunteer. Just take a year off.
Dec 7 2006 10:30PM
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skiierman
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I think it'd be better for him to go to school first, then take a year off. There's more of a chance he'll want to finish his education than rather start it up after a year off.
Dec 7 2006 10:32PM
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Chummer3
Posts: 599 - Karma: 9
im in engineering at U of michigan. it is so freaking hard and stressful, and i will be 80+ grand in debt when i graduate.
but it will pay off later.
Dec 7 2006 11:00PM
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jarossamdb7
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go where i go, fort lewis college, and youll be able to do that (for the first year anyway) just take a super slacker scedule for a while. fuck man, i hope it takes longer then 4 years for me to get out of this place, I like it here. I dont want a real job in the real world, fuck that.
Dec 7 2006 11:03PM
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hype
Posts: 1440 - Karma: 21
i did not judge his life at all. i was just trying to give my outlook. If he is asking that question then he is obviously in high school. I was there not too long ago and i was thinking the same thing. I decided to try college out and the amount of knowledge that is there floating around to help you is unimaginable. My best friend chose the other road and is not too happy with his decision or his job. Once again i did not judge at all, i offered my opinion and real world experience.
hindsight is always 20/20
Dec 8 2006 5:36PM
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ck567
Posts: 65 - Karma: 10
What I really suggest is apply to college get in, but while you're at it, take some skiing instructor courses, if you really plan on skiing all day, then your future job should be around the sport itself, so in the long run I think that would work out better. Keep in mind that, you STILL have to pass college though, just incase anything goes out of hand, you'll still have a backup plan in the end
Dec 8 2006 5:44PM
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