SCHOOL SUCKS

Post by **ynp1** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:35 pm

stix, man i hear you. i took a year off and it was hard as shit to get back into it. i just cant wait to get back to the valley in may. maybe ill see you there.
matt

Post by KD » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:54 pm

hang in there man. I dropped out of high school. bummed around for a few years. took the ged and passed it then went to college. the first year was tough. none were really that easy really but 6 years later i had my masters degree. I tell my students that time will pass, when i see them look at the clock during class ,and that that i'm worried about them doing the same. These years will pass on with or without you going to school. So i guess i'm saying that you might as well hang in there and have a degree when they do. good luck! enjoy!

Post by **Meadows** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:25 pm

I always thought that the real education was dealing with the school rather than sitting in its classrooms ...

It's a struggle, especially for those of us who went through it without our parent's wallets or had to take time off and start at a later time in life ... all these I did and I just wanted to get it over with. It was such a struggle for me that my roommate cried when my degree arrived. And I nearly quit ... again.

You're not just learning calculus, history, finance, whatever ... you're learning how to be savvy in your finances, to deal with people you'd rather just see disappear and most importantly, how to persevere when you'd rather give up. Just think of yourself at the last bolt of your project and you're pumped out of your mind, but the anchors are RIGHT THERE.

Post by **pigsteak** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:42 pm

is he at the chains or the first bolt right now meadows?

Post by **Meadows** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:57 pm

I don't know, Pig .. On some climbs, the anchors are far away from the last bolt (e.g. Primus Noctum), and then there's Ro Shampo (so close, yet so far away).

Post by **Christy** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 1:36 am

Keenan! Exciting news. Where are you going? What are you studying. I need to hear the scoop. School does suck at times, but in the long run its totally worth it. You're so much better off that you actually have some life experience before you went as opposed to going right out of high school. I'm actually thinking of going back soon to work on my masters. We'll see. Good luck to ya & hang in there!

Post by **dipsi** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:46 am

It is hard, Keenan, but well worth it! Don't wait till you are in your 40s and your kids are in college too!

No, wait! That was the most fun I've ever had!

But if I could have done it when I was young, I would have. And you know, if you wait, it messes with your head and you get people mixed up!

Post by **anticlmber** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:27 am

man schools for fools, i never went a day in my life and i can drink as much as those panty-waist frat boys. could be worse, at least you aren't one of those frat boys. Are you??? be good man ill see you soon.

Post by **Spragwa** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:29 am

Stick with it Keenan. I too dropped out of school when I was 16, moved to California and generally screwed off. I went back to college at 19 and had to work my ass off. First year of law school I got screwed out of financial aid by the school's bad bookkeeping, screwed on insurance b/c of bad bookkeeping and was generally miserable. But I got through it. You are allowed to hit some college meathead, just make sure it's a frat boy. They generally deserve to be smacked around for something.

Post by **stix** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:52 pm

Thanks yall for the encouragment. We'll see how it goes out here.

Christy....i'm gonna be goin to a communty school in the bay area for the starting in the spring quarter and then potentially transfer to either san jose state or UC santa cruz. who the hell knows what i'll study.

anticlimber.....gimme a call if you're out here....650 793 2264 (stacy's cell, i use her car, house, etc......why not her cell phone too.)