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willy_baller
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so this year i am going to do online school so i can ski more. I am hoping to be able to afford to be on a team but if its too expensive its not that big of a deal. It will also be a 2 hour ride to breck every morning.... I am pretty much completely dedicating this year to skiing. To anyone that has done something similar, how did it work out? to you was it worth almost completely getting rid of your school-social life? I am really curious to how its going to work out and if its going to be worth the work I put into it.
Aug 23 2010 1:16AM
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C_Perin
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How old are you? what grade?

Last year(junior year) i almost took online classes and moved to live with my bro in utah but decided against it because instead i only and going to one semester this year(senior year) and im graduating early and moving down to Utah in January.

I feel like i made the better decison and saved a ton of money.

ONline school is alot of work.
Aug 23 2010 1:48AM
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willy_baller
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I am 16, going to be a junior. And depending on how it goes this year, I will probally do it next year also. The online school I am doing is public so its free and they send you a free laptop. It seems like it will be nice to be able to do my school whenever i want instead of getting up at 6am and going til 3 on a daily basis.
Aug 23 2010 2:03AM
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16candles
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you're gunna get none. Got to school for a semester, meet women, get their numbers, leave, do online school. ski
Aug 23 2010 2:05AM
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Yung_Gnarley
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how dumb are your parents?
Aug 23 2010 2:13AM
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willy_baller
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??? I don't see the problem... It has the same accreditation as any other public school. I even talked to CU, CSU, and WSU to make sure that they had no problems with online school. not sure if that s what you were getting at. but please explain.
Aug 23 2010 2:24AM
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mmallender.
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hahahaha online school, so basically youre going to fail school, i have a friend who did the same and just finished her first actual full year of highschool this past year, shes i think 17?
Aug 23 2010 2:25AM
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Yung_Gnarley
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you'll grow apart from your friends.
you won't ski everyday like you say you will cuz you have to drive two hours each way. it's gonna get old.
online school is a joke. it's just about as effective as home-schooling (haha)
colleges don't have any problems with online school but they definitely prefer kids that go to real school.
Aug 23 2010 2:29AM
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willy_baller
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me and my dad are looking at place to rent up there so the two hour drive might not be going on the whole year... And I dont think colleges will care if I have 3 years of actually going to school and one online, especially if I keep above a 3.5gpa
Aug 23 2010 2:35AM
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p-fo
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i know a guy who did essentially what youre doing. hes now a very good big mountain and mogul skier and i think he may be headed to the next olympic team. if you can do it. do it
Aug 23 2010 2:47AM
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Yung_Gnarley
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sounds like a plan stan
Aug 23 2010 2:49AM
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Ftacnik
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You can't hate on home schooling if you've never tried it. I lived in CA my whole life until about two years ago, I moved here (Missoula, MT). As soon as I got here I started home schooling so I would have the flexibility to go back to CA and visit whenever (My dad still lives there). I go back and get a season pass every year and ski there for a few months or whenever I'm down. Home schooling isn't as bad as people think it is. I actually enjoy it. Super flexible, you just have to have a lot of self motivation to get your work done. This coming year I'll be doing online schooling so I can just bring my laptop wherever and do school whenever. As long as it's accredited and you stay committed to it,  it won't mess up anything college wise. Being able to ski any day of the week is bomb. Also, having friends that are home schooled and ski is another really big bonus. 
Aug 23 2010 2:56AM
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willy_baller
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Ya I have no friends that do online school or home school. But im guessing if im on the mountain 5 days a week I will meet people.
Aug 23 2010 12:14PM
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johnnypsunami
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If you wanna go somewhere with skiing, you gotta do it young. As soon as you are 18-19 years old you need to be peaking, because with injuries you're not going to last too long.

I would say go for it man. You can go to school at any age. Skiing, you can too, but not park skiing.

DOOOO IT.

Aug 23 2010 5:25PM
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grown-ninja
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my friend was taking on-line college corses, ended up taking his midterms in mexico on our spring break...never the less ended up with a D, D, F in the 3 classes he was in
Aug 23 2010 5:29PM
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The_Oakley_Kid
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i think you should take into account how good you are at skiing right now, and where you want to be by next season. if youre giving up so much to ski(school, social life, comuting time, gas etc...) , then it better be worth it, ya digg? if all youre gonna do is kick it at the mountain then i'd say no. if youre actually gonna train and do something productive, then yes.
Aug 23 2010 5:32PM
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PBraunstein
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this is a fairly dumb thing to say.

wallisch didnt move to utah until he was 18.. and contrary to what some believe, he is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar from peaking.

Also chillin and watchin Paco ski, makes me feel like park skiing can be done even with old age... dudes 32 and was doing bio 10s on the 70 ft. jump at West Coast sessions...

go to school. be smart. go to college and ski tons.
Aug 23 2010 5:36PM
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willy_baller
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ya i am going to work my ass off to try and take it somewhere. I am hoping to have around 5 dub flips by the end of the season and lots of unnaty/switch singles.(smooth with style, not just super hucked) And I wont be blowing off school. I will still be taking AP classes, I just wont have POS teachers that dont know the class they are teaching.
Aug 23 2010 6:19PM
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ndye
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D, D, F is a 67% pass rate. sounds good to me
Aug 23 2010 7:42PM
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messplay
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dude i think it's a good idea. college IS the best years of your life, trust me..and high school? yeah i guess it helps get you into college but coming from out-of-state just like the other 60% of kids at CU, all they care about is $$$.

if you talked to some advisors at your home colleges like you said (CU, CSU, etc...) then go for it. online classes can be a little harder becuase you aren't physically there, but only skiing 5 days a week and skiing probably 9hrs a day (same time you'd be in school roughly) then there isn't much of a difference.

manage your time and dont get too addicted to skiing where you think "fuck it, i can just go to college 1 more year later" sort of thing, becuase if you dont follow that particular order of highschool->college after, then your whole mindset is fucked.

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Aug 23 2010 7:48PM
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p-oskier
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Good for you, live your dream and if something happens out of this, great if not, too bad but at least you don't loose too much out of trying to live your dream!
Aug 23 2010 8:12PM
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HamFaceGirl
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If your that dedicated to the sport to lose your friends and put your college and rest of your life at risk, then go for it, but you better just accept the fact that you WON'T be skiing everyday and you you will probably be very bored over the summer months because of lack of friends, and you are putting the rest of your life at jeopardy because of 2 good years of skiing. Overall I feel this is a very stupid idea. I mean think about it, on top of all that I said earlier, taking online school will NOT get you into a same quality college as regular, and that's putting your career at risk (Which intern is putting your future skiing in your life at risk)
Putting all this in simple language...
Online school=bad college
Bad college=bad career
bad career=not a lot of$
not a lot of$= no money to ski with
So is it really worth it for those 2 years to ski an extra few days or get a good job so you can ski for 50+ years with good$
That's my side, the rest of your life is up to you
Aug 23 2010 8:31PM
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Ftacnik
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"Online school = Bad College"
Nice little assumption there bud.
Aug 23 2010 9:42PM
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TWoods
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Yea. It's really dependent on a lot of things. And going to college to make more money isn't all there is to it. You have to be smart to begin with. I didn't go to the best college for my major, but i enjoyed life a lot more doing it. It may be harder for me to find work, but I worked my ass off, and working your ass off is really what's going to help you make it in the end.
Aug 23 2010 9:48PM
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Owl
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well how good are you in the first palce?
Aug 23 2010 9:53PM
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Ftacnik
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Exactly.
Aug 23 2010 9:59PM
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JSiegel
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dude fuck these negative nancy's. if you have thought it through, go for it. i just hope for ur sake ur a cool kid and u meet a lot of people skiing everyday, not just listening to music and telling urself i have to land this double. life is what you make of it, and if you feel that this is a good choice for you to be happier than staying in school, do it. but if you get too sucked into being really good at skiing and stop having fun, you will not go anywhere. and about the college thing, i know people who went to U of U and sac state and are multi millionaires now. college is what you make of it, so is everything in life. good luck dude.
Aug 23 2010 10:19PM
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Eric.S
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Just a warning some online classes ( math in particular ) take alot of fucking work.
Aug 23 2010 10:34PM
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miemiec
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First off I hope you realize online classes are way harder than regular classes, especially when it comes to science and math; english, history and other social sciences aren't as bad.   Why don't you take actual classes fall semester, and then online classes spring semester.  And talk to your school to see if it's possible if you can take summer classes.  I know a lot of pros do this, I've heard interviews were Tom Wallisch, Mike Clarke, and John Symms have done this, just to name a few.  You really shouldn't take a whole year of online classes.  I can tell you from experience your grades will suffer.  You should really think about this.  But it's your decision, as long as you can live with it, or make it work.  Whatever you do good luck, and hope your ski season is a blast.
Aug 23 2010 10:41PM
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willy_baller
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with all of the online schools I have talked to you have to do a full year otherwise i would just do 2nd semester. and thanks!

to marc- All colleges look at online school exactly the same as they do a normal public school. The online school that I am doing actually takes more credits than the school I have been going to, to graduate.

to Owl- I have every natural single flip I can think of on lock. and switch rodeos and switch corks plus normal spins. I have almost landed a few dub cork 12s and I was trying them the day after I learned single corks. on rails 2s on, lip 2s on switch ups bs and fs, fs 6 off bs 4 off.

to Jsiegel- To me, making myself progress as hard as I can is the most fun part of skiing. I try to be as personable as I can.... and i cant listen to music when is ski, it just makes me ride horrible, which usually results in some good conversations on the lift rides.

and to everyone else who is saying I will lose contact with my friends- I will still be living within a few miles of them because I live in a really small town. So I dont think i will grow to terribly far apart from them.
Aug 23 2010 11:04PM
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jibbinc.
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man i tried to take grade 10 planning online,
almost failed
Aug 24 2010 12:18AM
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HaydenHarmon
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I did something very simaler last year, it was my senior year and they went by tri's, i only took off one tri but i loved it.  I took classes from byu independent study they are kind of expensive but if you are taking electives some are extremely easy and you get a half credit which is a normal class.  You don't have to be lds or anything to take the classes my main regret was that i didn't ski enough i was stuck at my crappy home mountain most of the time but i got to go to park city like 10 times.  If you go by semesters I suggest you only take off the second one.  And try to get all of your classes done before you finish your first semester because its alot easier.  it was way fun but i probably spent about 700 on online school.  If you want to know more about it pm me but i would definitly do it from byu i have tried ehs and it really sucks.
Aug 24 2010 12:55AM
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willy_baller
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I am doing it through Kaplan University. Its free. Was it hard to get ahead? because I want to try and cram before ski season so I can just do a couple classes a day vs. 8.
Aug 24 2010 1:20AM
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HaydenHarmon
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i did it through byu and there were some classes i finished in two hours, i think the most time i spent on any was 12 hours they are way easy from byu but they are expensive
Aug 24 2010 1:23AM
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Grover
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same. FUCKING SUCKED dont do it. I did grade 10 last year and almost died... going back to normal school this year.

I hardly ever got to ski because school was so hard.
Aug 24 2010 2:15AM
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JakeSalvador
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Find a place to live thats closer to a mountain(45 minute drive or so?). Do school like normal. PROBLEM SOLVED.

Aug 24 2010 2:18AM
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pghjibber
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dude don't worry about these clowns hating...

at the end of the day the only person/thing that can bring you down doing this is yourself

having previously taken online courses in math/finance/accounting at a top-30 university and subsequently acing them, i can honestly say it 100 percent has to do with your commitment and time management

the whole social life argument sounds like garbage too... im gonna assume a lot of your friends are skiers - thus you're still going to be hanging out with them
Aug 24 2010 2:33AM
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03gade
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1. I thought online schools were only for colleges and was really against it then you said you were in high school and everything changed. A high school is a high school colleges aren't gonna care where you went to high school like a job would care about college.
2. You're doing it through kaplan, which is legit, not joebobslackercourseonline.com
3. You're and AP student so you know what you're doing.
4. You're good at skiing so it would be worth it.
5. This is all coming from a college junior who has a 3.8 GPA and thinks online colleges are a joke.

You're solid man, this isn't even debatable. Colleges are gonna think this whole thing was a cool experience. If you weren't a good student they'd see how you did this to slack, but you said you are an AP kid so it is legit.
Aug 24 2010 2:56AM
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Isabelle
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Skiing is my life, I stopped going to school last year, and my friends ski, and pretty much everything in my life involves skiing, this was working out great for me, I was happy, traveling, meeting new people, skiing untill I passed out. it was great untill the moment I torn my acl, and now I'm at home being depressed about not 'having a life' cause I can't ski. even tho this has happend to me, I'd say go for it, skiing is the best thing in the whole world, it can bring you happiness, something that school or anything else won't give you. goodluck

Aug 24 2010 8:39AM
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johnnypsunami
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how many 32 year old pros do you know of these days?

If you want to progress your skiing fast, and go somewhere with it, then do it while you're young. Education is important too but it can wait.

College is overrated.

Aug 24 2010 12:08PM
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m.brus
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I know a kid who travelled a lot so he would take online classes and he's doing great. He got into a good college and is doing what he loves. He made more friends travelling and kitesurfing then he would in school, and he likes those people more anyway. I'd say go for it, just focus on school a lot
Aug 24 2010 12:48PM
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panojibber
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I did grade 12 through a self study school, and it was waaaay more work than I expected. Managing your self is much more difficult than you would think. I skied more than I would gave otherwise but wound up doing half of a calculus course in about 4 days.... Painful. It's 100% do-able but it's tough. I suggest you try to find a school that offers self-study before doing online, that way you'll have friends but also the to
Aug 24 2010 1:15PM
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panojibber
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... The time to ski a lot, plus it looks better to universities. Maybe even save your money up and go to a ski academy for a year if possible.
Aug 24 2010 1:16PM
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Elmo.
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you should deffinitly do this man... id take that opportunity any day... good luck man hope you stay healthy
Aug 24 2010 2:10PM
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Juice.Doctor
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can we please have a vid of you skiing? just curious
Aug 24 2010 3:12PM
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messplay
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OP? post something...
Aug 24 2010 3:21PM
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JacheOReally
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I wouldn't do it man, you only get one time in high school, which is a very memorable time in many kids lives, just ski weekends, take a year off before college and ski, dont fuck up your childhood
Aug 24 2010 3:28PM
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willy_baller
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I dont really have any vids of me skiing. whebever I go skiing with my friends we are all just having a blast pushing eachother and not really worrying about footage. The only vid I have is of a dub back attempt and my worst dub cork attempt(almost dub rodeo and i didnt come out of the second flip, it was ugly). I will post those in a little.

And to Nasty Daisy- I would if I could but as of now I am lacking the $$$, but my parents and I are trying to figure something like that out.

to Starkdaddy- I would love to go to a ski academy but I dont think it would be the greatest idea to try to get my parents to sell my house to pay for it.... because I cant think of any other way to raise $30,000.
Aug 24 2010 7:12PM
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03gade
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^ just forget about this thread, its not even debatable, you're set on doing it and you know what ur doing
Aug 24 2010 7:42PM
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willy_baller
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good point and Im already enrolled for online so theres no turning back! I will bump this thread at the end of the season if I remember to say how the results were so if anyone else ever is in my situation they will have an idea on how it will work out!
Aug 24 2010 8:23PM
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nellyyy
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just from experience i can tell you teaching myself Calculus was probably one of the harder things i've ever done. and doing online school you can get behind and dig yourself a hole that's impossible to get out of quickly
Aug 24 2010 8:26PM
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