10-17-2023, 12:30 PM
(10-17-2023, 12:14 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Pretty similar story to mine. No one in my family had ever gone to college before me, so it just wasn't a thing that my parents thought of much. I only did it because it was just "the thing to do". I wasn't the greatest student in high school. I was a class clown, hated keeping up with my homework and made OK grades. Nothing special. Nothing for a scholarship, surely. So, I went to a community college and actually started enjoying school. I found I liked math quite a bit, statistics even more. I went to the satellite campus and graduated without issue to go into the "real" world as I saw it. I had been working full-time throughout most of this, but it still felt like I was a kid goofing off.
I too sometimes wish I had actually gotten the college experience, but I think it was for the best that I didn't. I wasn't much of a partier but I think introducing all of those distractions would have made it more difficult for me to come out as well as I did. I would've chased girls, undoubtedly. Instead, I graduated with no debt and an immediate job. I'm happy it worked the way it did.
I could have written exactly what you wrote, except for the math part. Math is from Satan, to my mind
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You mentioned scholarships, which reminded me of my own school financing, During my night school days I did borrow some money for classes but mostly paid out of pocket as I went. At the time I graduated I owed only $4,100.00. Can you imagine that now, only $4.1k in loans? It's absolutely insane what an education costs these days.
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