Lately (past year or so) I've been at a stand still. I don't have a clue what i want to do with my life. I've seriously considered hopping a bus and going out to california and just becoming a bum. I think that may have changed. My aunt and uncle live in California, and my uncle is very big into the tech industry. My parents are going to send me out to hang out with them for 4 or so days and get a view at what actually happens in the tech industry. This could be the start of something wonderful.

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Well good luck man, don't give up.

Get really good at something and never let go of it.

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Congratulations, man. Good luck with that.

Now we all need to pitch in to help bit find his way. Come on everyone, crowd around him and all start speaking at once.

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Registration for next year's classes were today. I had no idea what to put, because I am one of the most aimless people I know. I promise you, it truly has crossed my mind to not go to college at all, , even though I could easily graduate college with a 4.0 GPA in two years because of how rigorous my high school program is (meaning, if I don't go to college, my whole stress of high school would be a waste, and besides, I know not going to college is dum.)

I told my friends of this today, and they kinda... um... freaked out a little with a lot of "R U SRSLY SERIOUS???".


So yeah, my choices for next year's classes are as follows, in as many combinations as possible:

Math
Statistics, as my math (meaning, Math Studies in Senior Year)

Statistics and Pre-Calc (one is my elective, this lets me take at least Calc I my senior year before college...)

or just Pre-Calc as my main math (the Stats teacher is cool, and WAAAAY easier than pre-calc, but I think this should be more essential?)

Sciences and Electives (only if I don't take two math classes, although that MIGHT be the smartest idea...)
Psychology or IB Enviromental Systems as my elective choices, the latter which would be a bullshit class since I already took Enviromental Science this year, just for the AP credit on a AP exam that has a 44% passing right (). Meaning, I'd have an advantage over others, and it would be somewhat easier.

AP/IB Physics (I got basic physics, instead of my friends who got some higher level Physics, since I'm a B student in Chem. ) as my science, and Psychology or Enviro. Systems as my elective.


Really, the whole purpose should be to keep me well rounded. Psychology should be a class I take, but I'd like to take SOME Pre-Calc before collage, just because it's needed (right De Seis?). I'd also want Stats, just for the teacher and the easy class however, meaning teaming up for two math classes might be best. Also, taking Pre-Calc and Psych would be a LOT of work, which wouldn't make that too ideal, although it would make me more well rounded.

Math is my best subject, although History is my favorite. (I routinely score 99th% in my state for standardized math exams, although on the PSAT this year I only made 97th% )
Really, it depends on what I want to do in my life when I'm older, but since I don't have a clue, I don't see how that helps.

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I know how you feel bit.

According to my ACT, i was 93rd percentile, not too shabby.

But what the fuck do i want to DO?

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Have I ever mentioned that the future scares me?

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you want to drop out of high school, it isn't worth it. Take the GED and go to community college for 2 years and figure out your life during that time cause classes surely won't take up much of you rlife.

slash i have to declare a major on the 29th.
slash, i started this semester signed up for 2 classes and it all worked out
slash people only get pregnant if they want to
slash cut the emo
stop stressin, seriously. you can find out what you want to do while you're in college. take as many random classes as you can, especially freshman seminars, if such a thing is offered. if you don't like the class, drop it! or if the professor sucks, drop it. because in that case its hard to apply yourself.
seriously, you get out what you put in.
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I really just don't want to go to school anymore. 13 years has been fucking ENOUGH.

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you're almost done holmes.

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4-5 more years isn't "almost done".

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I don't know what I want to do either as far as a specific career goes, but I have ideas at least. Unless I can come up with anything better, I'll be majoring in English, because I like writing.

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Apoc- stop whining. high school work is easy. people are not.
Psycho- journalism

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Junior, and I have no sense of direction. I'm thinking I'll hop out of highschool with whatever I can scrounge up this late and then get into a community college and figure out if I should go on or just say, "fuck it, this isn't for me".

I really fucked shit up this first semester, I think I might have to take French 3 over again, and I'm almost certain I'm failing Chemistry. It's not that the concepts are hard to grasp or anything; I just let myself go unchecked. And then it was like fuck, end of the semester, I've only done 10 assignments.

I really don't know guys.

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I know it's easy, but i have no motivation to DO it, that's all.

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go to community college and figure stuff out... its probably the smartest choice you can make so you don't waste a bunch of $$ in a university or private school taking wasted classes.

note that i took a year of community college and didn't really like it because i was bored as shit and had little friends.

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the motivation is in knowing that you can live the american dream, just like everyone else. but only if you finish high school.

seriously. finishing high school is basic. you guys don't seem like some of my friends that dropped out but you probably don't wanna be working construction or some shit like that forever

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im getting ready to go to kings college down in charlotte, majoring in graphic design.

great thing about the school is, no general studies, you start taking classes for your major, so you don't waste two years of tuition on crap you don't need like yoga and underwater basketweaving.

if you are thinking about not going to college just because you've had enough, dont. People who wander off with just high school diplomas have about as much a chance of surviving as ice in hell. Its possible, but the effort you have to put forth is almost tripled. You're better off with some form of college education, regardless of area of study.

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i don't want the american dream though. I just want to have enough to get by and maybe have some fun along the way. I don't plan on dropping out, i've only got what, 5 months left, but i don't know if college is what i want to do right out of high school.

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Oh, when I say I don't want to go to college, I just mean that I don't care to. Of course I'll go. I have high enough grades as is (3.7 GPA, and it gets bumped up 1.1 points just for takin the classes that I do), and enough money to get me anywhere I would really care for. I mean, I could go to college, graduate in two years, and be in law school by the time I turn 20. It's just... I don't want to do that. And I don't know what I want to do.


[Definitely not law school though, but that's for personal private reasons! (father ftl)]

But yeah, basically, I'm aimless. There is no fucking way I'd go to community college, since I'm personally against that shit (esp. considering how fucking hardcore my high school classes are, liek srsly, not gonna waste those on sum boring shti liek dat)

But yeah, if I could get some smrt pplz advice (here's looking at you, De Seis, wherever the fuck you are) on my classes, I'd really appreciate it.


EDIT: For me, college IS something I want to do right out of high school. Hell, I COULD graduate in 2 years, but I WANT all four years no matter what. I'm too scared of the future to not go to school at all, as lame as that may be. And besides, college years are like, the best years of your life, supposedly. Especially for me since I get two free years to take as many bullshit classes as I want, just to play around and see what I like. (we actually had this discussion today, after registrations, where my teacher said an old student did exactly that, studying "Architecture of Southern New Mexico" just because he thought it sounded weird)

EDIT AGAIN: I guess I'm just lucky and privledged to have as many chances as I do, the money available through dead grandparents, and the scholarship money I'll get just because I'm so damn smrt. But I, like the rest of you, am aimless, so don't fucking call me ungrateful.

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plus law school = 12 extra years 0.o

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you guys make me wanna die

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I'll be graduating High School, that's not my concern. It's just that I'll be going to a Community College once I'm done (most likely). And from there I have no idea.

My mom has always had it set in her mind that I would go to college, but I honestly don't know why I should if it's going to just turn out as a complete waste of time/money.

The only thing that I could see coming out of it would be that I have some random bullshit degree and can get the same shitty job as the next guy; I just have a better chance of being hired.

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I don't like journalism.

My mom says I either have to get a full scholarship to St. John's or go to a city college, because we don't really have much money. Personally, though, I want to go dorm somewhere like Stony Brook or something.

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