Your "place" or w/e in school ? ;o

[quote=StunL0ck]no high school for me, I'm in college and its basically your a frat boy or your not, and I said fuck being a frat boy so I just chill forreal[/quote]

[quote=Dotter][img]http://freepostermaker.com/uploads/saved_posters/free-poster-hht3ejqe60-RISK.jpg[/img] Yougan, it's your own damn vault.[/quote]

[quote=iBradlee][quote=Kirluu] IMO being abscent only leads to a sad future. At least from what I've seen, the most people who just barely pass(Don't know how far you were from failing) end up as a craftsman of one sort or another. I'm not saying that's a bad thing if it's what you always wanted, it's just what I see as the near-bottom of the educational possibilities out there. Not judging on those who always wanted to be a craftsman, but have you considered that that might be one's wish [i]because[/i] one doesn't have the grades for anything bigger? :S [/quote] Absence =/= Bad grades/sad future, necessarily. Haha, when I was in high school I would occasionally go to our stage (Where theater performances took place and such), and sleep on the couch that was there during my first hour class. As well, I'd sometimes dip out of my 4th hour class, which was right after lunch, and just take an extended lunch break. Just go off school grounds, to the store or whatever really, and occasionally a restaurant to get some REAL food for lunch. Gooooood times... And, btw, I passed all of my classes, including the ones I ditched more frequently. All A's and B's. Feels good man[/quote]

[quote=theBMB][quote=iBradlee] [quote=Kirluu] IMO being abscent only leads to a sad future. At least from what I've seen, the most people who just barely pass(Don't know how far you were from failing) end up as a craftsman of one sort or another. I'm not saying that's a bad thing if it's what you always wanted, it's just what I see as the near-bottom of the educational possibilities out there. Not judging on those who always wanted to be a craftsman, but have you considered that that might be one's wish [i]because[/i] one doesn't have the grades for anything bigger? :S [/quote] Absence =/= Bad grades/sad future, necessarily. Haha, when I was in high school I would occasionally go to our stage (Where theater performances took place and such), and sleep on the couch that was there during my first hour class. As well, I'd sometimes dip out of my 4th hour class, which was right after lunch, and just take an extended lunch break. Just go off school grounds, to the store or whatever really, and occasionally a restaurant to get some REAL food for lunch. Gooooood times... And, btw, I passed all of my classes, including the ones I ditched more frequently. All A's and B's. Feels good man [/quote] go to a better school, the ones you go to aren't actually challenging you and you'll likely embrace this apathetic attitude in other areas of your life. Believe me, I'm dealing with it now.[/quote]

[quote=iBradlee][quote=theBMB] go to a better school, the ones you go to aren't actually challenging you and you'll likely embrace this apathetic attitude in other areas of your life. Believe me, I'm dealing with it now. [/quote] Nah, my high school was academically (As well as athletically, actually) one of the top in the area that I lived. Only rivaled by some schools from a MUCH bigger city, located downstate. Lots of kids would transfer to my school, mostly for athletic purposes, and almost all end up leaving within a semester because it's "Way too tough". PRETTY much, the only transfer students that stayed, were ones that transferred over for academic purposes, so they could take more difficult classes. Also, there were the foreign exchange students, that obviously stayed as well. Seeing as how my school was pretty small, and still getting as many foreign exchange students as we did, obviously implies that my school was top tier, in terms of academic expectancy. So, like I said before, absence doesn't always mean getting bad grades, or failing in life. My first hour class was Advanced English, which is one I would sleep through on occasion, and still got an A, because I understood everything, and was just generally good at it. Anything I missed out on, I could read up on and figure out myself on my own time. My 4th hour was Art 3... Pretty fucking self explanatory.[/quote]

[quote=Kirluu]@davidcarl: How would I know that you are getting homeschooled when you don't say so in the first post o_o l0l. But yeah. @iBradlee: I never said that absence necessarily means bad grades. I, for one, could probably go to exams right away and get a fair score from it, without attending any classes until exam. But by mixing abscence with a bad choice of friends and perhaps smoking(These are just the associasations I've seen), it can severely hurt your future plans - by getting bad grades. I thank God that at the place now, you can get kicked out because of abscence, and I would have wished it was like that in the earlier stage of education I was at as well. Way too many people in my class "threw their life away" because they "didn't HAVE to be there".[/quote]

[quote=iBradlee][quote=Kirluu] But by mixing abscence with a bad choice of friends and perhaps smoking(These are just the associasations I've seen), it can severely hurt your future plans - by getting bad grades. [/quote] Not saying this is what you meant, buuuttt, I hear this type of stuff quite a bit. Especially so, during high school. So, just a disclaimer, not directing this entirely towards you, but more so just a general statement. It annoys me to no end, when people blame outside influences/decisions for their own mistakes. For example, there's the ever-popular "Pot makes you lazy/fat/procrastinate/or generally not care about important things in life". Now, I've never once witnessed, nor heard of, an incident in which Marijuana put a gun to some kids head, and forced him to drop out of school, not do homework, or become a lazy asshole who eats himself into obesity. It's YOU who make these decisions, and it's completely ridiculous to blame something/someone else for your mistakes/failure. This doesn't exclusively apply to pot, or drugs in general, though. It applies to most everything; the whole "Hanging out with the wrong groups of friends" thing, for example. I knew a guy from high school, who was a couple grades ahead of me, that hung out almost exclusively with the stereotypical stoner crowd. They (his friends) could give a fuck less about school and/or schoolwork, they just liked partying. HE, however, was an honor roll student, a tutor, and later went on to graduate from college with some sort of degree in Music Management (or something..). He also partook in smoking pot a LOT with friends, during AND after high school, and also did just as much partying as they did. The difference was, he CHOSE to put effort towards school, and his life in general. He hung out with the laziest people I know, yet was an incredibly motivated guy, himself. That is all. /rant[/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi]On the topic of absence, I wish university in Australia forced students to go to lectures and tutorials, or at least gave incentives to attend. Why would I go to a lecture at 8am when I can sleep in and just read the notes in the afternoon outside in the sun? And yet... I suffer in grades because I don't fully grasp one concept or another. Sucks hard. I'm one of those people who leaves assignments to the last day, get a good grade, but if I had been working on it for the month allocated... I would have received a distinction. Same with studying for exams. I could be studying right now, for algebra and calculus because English is my snooze area, and math is where I really suck... But here I am, commented on the forums, tweaking my Vayne guide, not studying. God, I'm stupid.[/quote]

[quote=PsiGuard][quote=jhoijhoi] But here I am, commented on the forums, tweaking my Vayne guide, not studying. God, I'm stupid. [/quote] Einstein was pretty bad at school. Got terrible grades, couldn't focus, failed basic math. Just sayin'. @OP: Gamer Sci-fi geek Fairly quiet Academic That's pretty much me in a nutshell. I can be talkative, but usually just online or when I'm hanging with my small group of close friends. EDIT: Nice sig btw jhoi. Looks sweet.[/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi]lol, the comparison of me to Einstein is flattering but unrealistic haah :P Also, which sig? ;)[/quote]