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High school is a joke

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Nooblet
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Don't take what I'm saying here too seriously but I'm just expressing some thoughts that have crossed my mind.  High school was the biggest waste of four years I've ever experienced.  I find it funny that most of my teachers always talked about being prepared for college and how everything I was doing back then would prepare me.  I took mostly AP classes in high school, (AP calc, stats, us gov, chem, etc.) and I did absolutely nothing, I would show up most most days though so I wouldn't have to do community service (roughly 80% attendance), and every time I got assigned homework I would do it ten minutes before class and since high school was such bullshit I would get an A on it, I would spend about 10-20minutes a week on HW, and when tests rolled around I would just pull out a c or b and wind up with good grades at the end of the term.

Doing literally almost absolutely nothing for four years got me a full tuition scholarship to the U, and I went through the first year of college doing the same shit and pulled a 3.5 because I took general credits.  But now in my 5th semester of engineering I'm struggling so bad to try and pull c's, I can't get out of my fucking habits that high school gave me, I just can't do fucking homework.  I know it's my fault but I just think of how fucking stupid high school was ,I remember getting in trouble because I stopped showing up to HS for awhile because it was so pointless, and such a waste of time.  If you had too many missed days you would get community service which is bullshit, even if they were excused.  I could have done so much great stuff with that four years ( I did have good times, but class was very fruitless).





Sep 25 2009 10:13PM
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CAPITA-DEVOURS
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now that my friend, is the gift of being gifted. im pulling off a 95 average and i havent done homework this semester.
May 1 2011 4:57PM
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[~_~]
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This seems to be the common misconception. The truth is:

Not flunking high school leads to college. Doing well in college gives you a degree, which gets you job interviews.

In technical trades, this system seems to work, because all they need is a pair of hands that knows what they're doing, and quantifiable measurement of these skills is a somewhat valid indication of a person's abilities.

In creative trades, your degree only goes as far as your skill level. There are too many students who graduate with some sort of art degree, only to realize they can't find a single job because their work still sucks. And if your work was already amazing, you didn't need to go to school in the first place, since many people without degrees are hired simply on the basis of their skill ;there is less emphasis on officiated credentials.

Basically, our education system is a complete scam. Unfortunately, thats how she goes, so you're often better off just bearing through it.
May 1 2011 5:12PM
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theabortionator
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I agree.


It helps a little to have a degree these days but not for good reasons. It's just for getting an interview it's like oh he has a degree. Honestly for me I'd rather drop 60 k into a down payment on a house, save my money as i work and say fuck college.
May 1 2011 5:22PM
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belden...
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I agree with this thread sometimes school just gets in the way of actually doing work. My school does a big economic project during this part of the year and i found that school was just a waste of 6 hours that I could be spending finishing the project and getting it out of the way. So i actually skipped a bit of school friday to finish it. (It helped that like 200 other kids skipped school because there was a threat of a school shooting.)
May 1 2011 5:22PM
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BIGben*
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Before school psycologist had to much parent clients...
May 1 2011 5:40PM
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KravtZ
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Anyone who goe sto school for an art degree or any other stupid useless degree is wasting there time. Any famous artist or anyone who ever did well in the arts, didn't go to college or really need to go in the first place at all. If my kids one day ever want to go to art school, or go to college for some bullshit degree i straight up wotn let them go to school
May 1 2011 6:37PM
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Yung_Gnarley
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This is bullshit. They all attended collegiate-level art academies. Stop talking out of your ass about stuff you don't know about you twat.
May 1 2011 6:43PM
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[~_~]
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This is 100% false, you scoundrel.

Although I agree, you're better off burning your money than enrolling in art school.
May 1 2011 6:54PM
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Yung_Gnarley
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Guess I should just teach myself graphic design then...
May 1 2011 7:01PM
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[~_~]
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Graphic design is one of those weird exceptions to "art school" because it's highly technical, like engineering meets art. The reason graphic design doesn't suck like film/photography/painting/etc. is because it's generally accepted that there exists a clear-cut difference between good work and garbage.
May 1 2011 7:04PM
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JIBpsy^^
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I do all my assignments but i do em pretty half assed and i have a 3.95 GPA right now i skip whole days and sleep probly 50 percent of the time and when i am awake i dont really pay attention. highschool is a peice of fucking cake. I dont think its a waste of 4 years though its a time to have no financial obligation but lots of freedom its a time to smoke drugs and drink yourself stupid then go lay some pipeline in some chick you never talked to before.

May 1 2011 7:25PM
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funkmasterFLEX
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high school was just a time for me to have 0 responsibility.

basically have a ton of fun, and still fiend off my parents; thats it.
May 1 2011 7:28PM
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Yung_Gnarley
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For sure one of the reasons I enjoy it.
May 1 2011 7:31PM
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pomme-de-terre
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the thing is, i didnt learn any important skills in highschool. counting change? when the fuck did they teach me that? the other day i had to go register a car to my name for the first time but like didnt know what the fuck forms to get at the DMV. why didnt they teach me that in highschool? or how to do my taxes? how to make smart investments with money or start a savings account? or cook a fucking meal? all of that shit is important. i do those things every single day but i had to learn them elsewhere. i fucking promise you i will never have to use just about all of the math i learned in highschool, but they taught me that shit anyways. just so i could forget it the day i walked out.


May 1 2011 7:43PM
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Sugarloaf1906
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Talk to your doctor about getting a script for stimulants (adderall, vyvanse, concerta, etc.)

I was in your exact situation. HS was a joke. I didn't pay attention in my classes (AP Calc, Phys, Chem, Bio) but still got good grades because I am intelligent. I didn't develop good study habits. Then when I went to college for Mech E, I retook calc 1 & phys 1 first semester. I got good grades because I already knew the material. 2nd and 3rd semesters were bombs. I talked to my doctor about ADD and got a script for Adderall and now Vyvanse. Now I pull mostly A's and some B's in my junior year classes.
May 1 2011 7:52PM
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BrewskiJr
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Because chances are you'll be doing harder things in life than counting change, filling out forms, or cook a meal. I took 4 years of Latin and it helps me to this day with a lot of shit. Sure you might not use functions from calc in everyday life, but shit like that forms a basis to help you understand shit you will learn in college which WILL help you in life.

And I would love to see a high schooler take Tax Accounting. You would get RAPED. absolutely RAPED. Theres a reason tax accountants get paid so much. Its a shit ton of work, and its not easy at all.

And judging on how you want to take classes about cooking meals, filling out forms, or counting change, I would recommend Home Ec instead of Tax Accounting. I think it would fit your interests better.
May 1 2011 7:54PM
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pomme-de-terre
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no. because latin is a dead language.


and im not letting go of this opinion easy.
May 1 2011 7:55PM
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BrewskiJr
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Yeah no shit latin is a dead language. But If you become a doctor, its pretty much guaranteed you'll take latin at some point, because most medicines stem from latin words. Even in other subjects, I might see a word I dont know, and have figured out its meaning based on all my latin shit. Just like on the SAT's, the vocab section was actually fairly easy as a lot of the words i didnt know I could parse from Latin grammar.


To say that Latin is useless because you cant speak it is just pure stupidity.
May 1 2011 8:05PM
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JIBpsy^^
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I think the idea behind highschool is good but the exucutuion is terrible I am intellegent so i dont have to try for shit that doesnt seem right to me even though i love it its not fair for dumb kids.
May 1 2011 8:08PM
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Captain_Slow
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I start school at 720, I have ap eng, govt, and gym
May 1 2011 8:19PM
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ShredThePowdah.
Posts: 394 - Karma: 19

SKUHL SUX

May 1 2011 8:20PM
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JStrathern
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I don't believe you
May 1 2011 8:24PM
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fujarome
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if the only thing you take away from high school is that classes sucked, you missed the point.


High school was a great time and I enjoyed all of it. I wouldn't want to do it again, but thats because I'm older and onto different things now.

You're there for 4 years. You might as well enjoy it. Its like everything else, you get out what you put in.
May 1 2011 8:32PM
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icon1234
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I honestly think college is a joke, in terms of the teaching they provide. 95% of what I have learned so far in college has been straight out of textbooks. 80% of the time the lectures I attend add 0 value to material I have to learn. It's not that the professors are not smart, it's just not an efficient learning environment to teach students in excess of 300+ people in a lecture.

Now compare that to high school, where your classes are no bigger then 20 students, and you can ask your teachers as many questions as you want during lecture. This is an ideal learning environment, where your teacher actually knows your name, and you actually have some sort of guidance through the course work. My biggest regret is not trying harder in high school to actually learn things, cause often times I find my self struggling learning certain concepts in college because I did not put the effort in during grade school. The material in high school is a joke, but you can get a lot out of it if you actually try and not half ass shit. That being said, just because you did not try or do well in high school does not mean you cannot do well in college, just means your going to need to work harder to understand whats going on.
May 1 2011 8:37PM
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DrZoidberg
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I'll say I only learned a few thing important skills in high school. Math being one of them. But other classes were stupid, like physics, which was so easy. I got an a every quarter and got exempt from the final, and I feel like I could have learned all of it in a much shorter period of time. Now that I'm in college and taking "real chem classes" I realize I hardly learned anything in high school chem too. It took us forever to decide some element had x valence electrons.

Enjoy it if it's easy. I could go home, do about a 1/2 hour of homework each day and then do whatever and get As or Bs. Can't complain about that.

And actually, the only thing that seems like it it was beneficial was learning math. I'd say if you're gonna do anything science or engineer related learn math. Take calculus at least. Or just learn math. Like it or not, it's important.
May 1 2011 8:51PM
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theline
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wow what an effective bump
May 1 2011 8:59PM
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Radio
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yea i agree. im a freshman in trig and figured out about a month ago that i dont even need to do hw, as long as u understand the material and do good on tests geting an A is no problem, i just copy down the hw answers in the first 5 min of class. but im sure that this is not the best habit to get into,  so should i start doing my hw more, cuz im taking a few AP classes next year.

May 1 2011 9:49PM
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Nooblet
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Read you fucking idiot, I said I got my shit together and learned on my own. I fucking graduated university just fine
May 1 2011 10:37PM
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.Ian.
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So, honestly what is the general stereotype of homeschooled kids these days? Are we all (yes I'm homeschooled) unintelligent weird people because we choose to learn different than the average teenager? I don't mean to sound like a jerk at all if that's how my questions came across. I meant them to be taken as serious questions.
May 1 2011 10:47PM
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Yung_Gnarley
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no, just socially retarded.
May 1 2011 11:06PM
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huge-go
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Then shut up and stop complaining. Your OP was dedicated to you saying you can't study and how hard university was because of high school giving you "bad habits." High school does not give you bad study habits, YOU simply didn't learn any good habits from high school.
May 2 2011 12:09PM
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JIBpsy^^
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yup never studied for a test always wait till the night before on projects. My only B is in French and i dont even try to do things half assedly in that class. In fact i have like a 90 point assignment due tommorow and i havnet started i am on NS instead.
May 2 2011 6:20PM
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JStrathern
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Your school must be much much easier than mine because I literally do the exact same thing and score the same on tests and have a much lower gpa than you have.
May 2 2011 7:18PM
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.Ian.
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Haha alright. You are completely right about that.
May 2 2011 7:19PM
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skiinghogan
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how does this work?? let me in on your system!!
May 2 2011 7:43PM
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Crack.
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you're a joke
May 2 2011 7:46PM
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EAST~COAST
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I hate high school with a passion (still attending). I'm just like that.. i don't do jack shit out of the class and in the class I try to be the biggest disruption just because there is nothing better to do. I get my 89.68 unweighted avg between my AP US, Pre-Calc, Honor's Physics, and Spanish 4A and yet i don't understand why i must take these shitty classes if i can get the grades without working one bit.

Can't wait for college to pursue something I want to learn about and having the unrestricted social aspect. Umass or University of Colorado here i come
May 2 2011 7:51PM
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DasGoatenshafter
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agreed. Without highschool, no matter how easy it is for you, you would be shit at life. the only time highschool is a joke, is if you arent smart enough to do the work and would be better off going into a trade at age 15. but if you are doing post secondary, highschool is practise for building habbits, learning how to kiss the right asses, and not being a total lazy slob who is apathetic, going to drop university, and destined to bum off their parents for the rest of their life
May 2 2011 7:57PM
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FBGM
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Well first you have to have mental breakdown to the point of hospitalization. Then you have to leave high school for a year and a half and when you go back, they'll give you a pity partial! Good luck to you.
May 2 2011 8:23PM
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kaPOW
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I'm assuming you mean U of U and I'm curious what were your high school GPA and standardized test scores? Cause so far it's my top choice, just like many other NSers, and I'm hoping I'll be able to get a good scholarship.
May 2 2011 9:06PM
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theBearJew
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advertising
May 2 2011 9:07PM
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cwillygood
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its not a joke....











...its a MUSICAL!!

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haha but for real i do not like high school, to much work
May 2 2011 9:15PM
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Lemuel
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OP, this may sound harsh, but it sounds like you went to a academically shitty high school. If you could whip out AP assignments 10 minutes before class, your high school probably didn't have high standards or levels of education. I worked hard in high school to get good grades, my high school wasn't bullshit, you had to work for good grades. I wasn't a slacker and I am not one now.
May 2 2011 9:40PM
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AptosFreeskier
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It's funny how threads about ap tests/highschool inevitably turn into shameless claim threads. Oh no big I don't do much work and get good scores.
May 2 2011 9:41PM
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*Dos*Planker*
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yeah high school is definitely what you make it, if you go at it with a positive attitude and a goal of actually learning something then high school will defiantly benefit you.
May 3 2011 9:15AM
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