post your stories about dropping out here
Stories? It was hardly a novel or some sort of script, just entropy in human terms.
College sucks so I left and now Im happy. Woo.
I have two weeks left to join you :(
community college made me sad and my entire town made me sad so i left and enjoyed life in a different city and didn't have time for school because i didn't yearn for it
but now i do and i'll go back in the fall lol
Quote from: Clucky on May 01, 2012, 09:16:53 PM
community college made me sad and my entire town made me sad so i left and enjoyed life in a different city and didn't have time for school because i didn't yearn for it
How did you leave them? Was it with their blessing or are you essentially dead in their hearts now?
Tried college for about 4 months before the boredom overcame me. I didn't need to spend six weeks learning MS Word, and they refused to let me just take the finals up front, so I played StarCraft every day in class until I decided to quit wasting my time and get a job. Now I'm making money, for being bored.
Quote from: Socks on May 02, 2012, 06:56:59 AM
How did you leave them? Was it with their blessing or are you essentially dead in their hearts now?
i left without any forewarning or notice
i remembered i carried a small black backpack with small towelettes, plastic baggies, and small essentials for water storage so i won't ruin my health while homeless
wrote them a letter behind a gum wrapper consisting of 2 sentences, i think, or one.
basically, 'i'm leaving because i can't grow here. thanks for everything you've done so far, bye.'
a letter, since i couldn't bear being talked down upon and being manipulated by guilt
plus it was the easiest and happiest option for me
i knew if i've met them face-to-face, they'd ask me questions i don't know the answers to, force safety funds or phone numbers onto me or make me feel very sad
i visited them for three days for thanksgiving, and with my new experiences i can find more depth in them
made me more appreciative of mommy and daddy
and made me more actualized that i have to re-connect with daddy because he's the keeper of my raw creativity giggle;
Quote from: Mobius135 on May 02, 2012, 09:07:14 AM
Tried college for about 4 months before the boredom overcame me. I didn't need to spend six weeks learning MS Word, and they refused to let me just take the finals up front, so I played StarCraft every day in class until I decided to quit wasting my time and get a job. Now I'm making money, for being bored.
What kind of college requires you to take such a terrible course about MS Word? confuseddood;
I may dislike some of the courses I'm required to take (Composition, Literature, Civilization), but everything else seems fairly interesting
i enrolled at the university of minnesota but only went to 2 classes (a psychology lecture and a creative writing workshop) before deciding to leave.
then I tried going to Loyola Marymount in LA but didn't even go any classes
now I make $5,000/mo with the web platforms I've developed, and I sit around at home all day smoking pot and reading.
Quote from: vziard on May 02, 2012, 12:19:52 PM
i enrolled at the university of minnesota but only went to 2 classes (a psychology lecture and a creative writing workshop) before deciding to leave.
that was me
i went and did Movie Classes and filmed a couple of things and it was really fun and then i realized i am paying lots of money for this and switched to business and then dropped out a semester later. dont regret going though.
Quote from: bluaki on May 02, 2012, 10:13:45 AM
What kind of college requires you to take such a terrible course about MS Word? confuseddood;
I may dislike some of the courses I'm required to take (Composition, Literature, Civilization), but everything else seems fairly interesting
It was an intro to computers course. They told me it was a pre-requisite that I had to take.
i can't drop out because i don't know what I want to do so I'mma just get a degree i guess akudood;
Quote from: eeeeeee on May 02, 2012, 08:58:21 PM
i can't drop out because i don't know what I want to do so I'mma just get a degree i guess akudood;
This is truly one of the most depressing things I've read on boyah lately.
i went to rit for a while and at first it was like yay because i had a girlfriend back home who kept me happy in the emotional means of everything
but when that starting to go to shit i wondered whether i truly wanted to a) be spending 50k a year on college and b) live 300 miles away from home with not many friends and c) major in computer science at all because i wasn't really that fond of it
so i said no to all of that and decided to go back home and then i went on a road trip across the country after working for like 3 months straight
and then i went back to school at a state school that's costing me maybe 7k a year and i'm going to be a math teacher so yeah
Quote from: Colonel Cold on the Cob on May 02, 2012, 09:00:09 PM
This is truly one of the most depressing things I've read on boyah lately.
im in the same boat thumbup;
how the fuck is college so expensive for you people
for everybody paying over $20000 a year, where did you go?
I kind of just stopped going. My last semester I was in a poor state so I kind of started skipping class and my work was suffering, and I realised I didn't even like what I was going for so I just never signed up for more classes after that.
Quote from: Pancake Persona on May 02, 2012, 09:51:41 PM
how the fuck is college so expensive for you people
for everybody paying over $20000 a year, where did you go?
I'm even going out of state and my tuition without room and board is just under 20k I believe.
But I'd assume they're going to private schools?
Quote from: Clucky on May 02, 2012, 09:47:04 AM
i left without any forewarning or notice
i remembered i carried a small black backpack with small towelettes, plastic baggies, and small essentials for water storage so i won't ruin my health while homeless
wrote them a letter behind a gum wrapper consisting of 2 sentences, i think, or one.
basically, 'i'm leaving because i can't grow here. thanks for everything you've done so far, bye.'
a letter, since i couldn't bear being talked down upon and being manipulated by guilt
plus it was the easiest and happiest option for me
i knew if i've met them face-to-face, they'd ask me questions i don't know the answers to, force safety funds or phone numbers onto me or make me feel very sad
i visited them for three days for thanksgiving, and with my new experiences i can find more depth in them
made me more appreciative of mommy and daddy
and made me more actualized that i have to re-connect with daddy because he's the keeper of my raw creativity giggle;
I figured, but still, I can't do that myself. It would crush them, and it will be super difficult this way for me but I have no choice and must somehow make it work. I admire your ability to leave though, I know in the end it would be easier and they would get over it, but, you know, yeah, it's not that easy.
Quote from: eeeeeee on May 02, 2012, 08:58:21 PM
i can't drop out because i don't know what I want to do so I'mma just get a degree i guess akudood;
it honestly doesn't hurt to have one, and props to you for seeing it through. doesn't matter, really, if it turns out to matter, what matters is that you can either do something, or not do it.
Quote from: Pancake Persona on May 02, 2012, 09:51:41 PM
how the fuck is college so expensive for you people
for everybody paying over $20000 a year, where did you go?
LMU was going to bill me about $14,000 per semester (no housing/food included), even after the 25k in scholarships I'd mustard
^ main reason why i left that school but also realized everyone there is cocks
Would you have stayed if you had more scholarship money to ketchup on payments n_u
Quote from: NDDR on May 03, 2012, 12:23:09 AM
Would you have stayed if you had more scholarship money to ketchup on payments n_u
n, i relish my decision to leave. I sensed it was all going to be.. horseradish
barbecue sauce
Quote from: vziard on May 03, 2012, 12:06:55 AM
LMU was going to bill me about $14,000 per semester (no housing/food included), even after the 25k in scholarships I'd mustard
^ main reason why i left that school but also realized everyone there is cocks
Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions
found your problem
It is so odd to imagine a boyager willingly going to a catholic university girl;
Quote from: NDDR on May 03, 2012, 01:07:50 AM
It is so odd to imagine a boyager willingly going to a catholic university girl;
snorkel's not religious so i'm guessing his family sent him there
and it's hard to imagine anybody would want to go to a religious school
Quote from: Pancake Persona on May 03, 2012, 01:17:53 AM
snorkel's not religious so i'm guessing his family sent him there
and it's hard to imagine anybody would want to go to a religious school
no, I wasn't about to live in pasadena to go to caltech or occidental, it was the best choice given where I wanted to live
was willing to ignore the catholic endorsement, even though jesuits aren't really known for being awful, but the place ended up being shit anyway
honestly it would've been cheaper to go to another college in another town that didn't suck
Quote from: Pancake Persona on May 03, 2012, 01:28:08 AM
honestly it would've been cheaper to go to another college in another town that didn't suck
all colleges suck
college is nice and there's a good community at mine
don't be a pretentious cockhole and you'll enjoy it
With tuition, housing, food, and everything, my net cost of attendance is about $7.5k / semester
My scholarships essentially pay for all of my tuition but none of the extra fees and living expenses.
I do go to a private university, which probably makes things more expensive to me, though they very dramatically reduce the effective tuition difference for me with their own scholarships
i personally feel like a failure lol.
Quote from: Patsy Stone on May 03, 2012, 05:20:08 AM
i personally feel like a failure lol.
not just a feel buddy
Quote from: Pancake Persona on May 03, 2012, 01:38:41 AM
college is nice and there's a good community at mine
don't be a pretentious cockhole and you'll enjoy it
oh yeah?
Did my previous post in this thread imply that I intend to drop out of college? I don't. doodhuh;
I was just responding about the cost of education.
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Quote from: Pancake Persona on May 03, 2012, 01:38:41 AM
don't be a pretentious cockhole and you'll enjoy it
Enjoyment also probably depends heavily on your major and how the university you attend treats that major
i decided to drop out the second i started filling out applications
Quote from: bluaki on May 03, 2012, 02:17:17 PM
Did my previous post in this thread imply that I intend to drop out of college? I don't. doodhuh;
I was just responding about the cost of education.
you weren't implying that you weren't dropping out
i just hope you never consider it because you'll definitely do pretty well once you graduate and i don't want any plebs around here to influence you
Quote from: Pancake Persona on May 03, 2012, 02:26:30 PM
you'll definitely do pretty well once you graduate
Unless all the employers I try to apply for hate transgender people n_u
Quote from: bluaki on May 03, 2012, 02:30:01 PM
Unless all the employers I try to apply for hate transgender people n_u
if you move farther north fewer and fewer people will care
and if you find out that that's the reason they don't hire you, sue for discrimination and enjoy your piles of money
Quote from: Pancake Persona on May 03, 2012, 02:31:20 PM
if you move farther north fewer and fewer people will care
and if you find out that that's the reason they don't hire you, sue for discrimination and enjoy your piles of money
I do hope to move father north when I can
Especially in the southern states, anti-discrimination laws tend to not apply to transpeople. I've heard of at most a couple of successful cases out of many more firings that occur.
the cool part about dropping out is that you literally have no way to meet people and your life goes into a standstill and it is impossible to escape,.
Quote from: silvertone on May 03, 2012, 06:09:17 PM
the cool part about dropping out is that you literally have no way to meet people and your life goes into a standstill and it is impossible to escape,.
Quote from: silvertone on May 03, 2012, 06:09:17 PM
the cool part about dropping out is that you literally have no way to meet people and your life goes into a standstill and it is impossible to escape,.
I can vouch for this.
I don't know, even when i went to college I didn't meet anyone and I still felt like my life was in a standstill (because I went to college for all the wrong reasons). It wasn't until I dropped out that I felt like I was making progress.
Wait I met one person who only befriended me to make better grades in the photography class I had taken.
>Be 19
>Have okay first semester
>Start having anxiety attacks second semester
>Barely pass second semester classes and drop out
the good thing is that you can do a few shots and everything seems ok.