Hey I was a shitty High school student. When I when to apply for college they said I couldn't attend because I took retard classes instead of college prep classes. My mom who worked at my high school as a lunch lady went to the administration to have them forge my transcript to say I took college prep classes.I did a year at a state university back home on a music scholarship. It wasn't for me, or I wasn't for it, or something.
Took some classes at the community college down here figuring I should continue my education but after a year of that I said fuck it and joined a rock-n-roll band. Maintained shitty jobs that would be easy to walk away from when we got discovered and became stars.
Hey it could happen.
fuck, halo 1 on 4 linked xboxs with cables running down the hall was amazing.Hey I was a shitty High school student. When I when to apply for college they said I couldn't attend because I took retard classes instead of college prep classes. My mom who worked at my high school as a lunch lady went to the administration to have them forge my transcript to say I took college prep classes.
I ended up doing nothing but drinking and playing Halo in college for three semesters. Then, I dropped out and went to tech for an electrical trade for one semester. Dropped out of that to work a shitty clerical job and get married. Went back for a 2-year transfer degree, making all A's in every class. Except math, well I did but actually it was my wife who took that class for me lol.
Now I work a great government job, doing almost nothing, that requires no degree. My biggest qualification was the phrase, "Yeah, I'm great with computers".
Now that I'm friends with a bunch of teachers, I understand that that might just be the case.They probably just let you pass cause they didn't want to deal with you another year.
My ability to automate things made my whole IT career. Essentially, my desire to be lazy made me succeed.I thankfully have retained my "expend minimal effort, still somehow succeed" traits throughout life.
I often wonder how my life would have turned out if I had actually been challenged in the gifted program in elementary and middle school instead of "exploring" the material from unlikely perspectives. I don't see how trying to figure out how the teapot felt in "I'm a Little Teapot" helps me today, for instance.I was the gifted kid that never needed to study.
My school was a developmental research school, we set the baseline for the FCAT exams before all the other schools got them. We also got a lot of FSU PhD students that would help in class. Got interviewed by one of them for his thesis, went something like: "Why should I try? Why should I expend effort? You, as a teacher, can't spend time on me, you can't engage me. You have to focus your time on the problem students and not the ones like me that want to learn."
My AP English teacher changed mid year, was an old crotchety old man that had been there a thousand years. Had an A with him. New teacher was fresh out of school and was obsessed with Toni Morrison books, we read Beloved and it just sucked. She kept trying to get us to decipher deeper meanings in the story and... there were none. All the meaning was right there, right on the surface. It sucked. She sucked. I stopped participating and with her I got an F, averaged out to a C grade. She was adamant that I wasn't going to be able to succeed if I didn't try harder.
AP exams came around and I got the second highest grade in the class. Unfortunately because I had a C the college credit didn't count.
Took Algebra II early cause I took two math classes Freshman year, had a bunch of high school seniors in the class that had to pass or they wouldn't graduate. Teacher recognized that the homework was holding me back, sent home a letter to my folks and said that with their permission I would only be graded on attendance and tests.
Final exam rolls around, she gave us graphing calculators to use on the exam and didn't require us to show all of our work. I walked through it with the graphing calculator and the basic steps. Turned it in after 20-30 minutes of an 80 minute class. Rest of the class, especially the seniors, just looked at me like "WTF"
Graduated with no real effort. Study habits I "developed" did not help me at any point later in life
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Can you use Google Voice, so that your true number is hidden?Distance counselling sucks. Have to call from a private number so clients don't have my personal phone but it means if they miss me they can't call back easily. Was meant to start with someone earlier today and they didn't pick up twice in a row. Just got a tearful email as they really wanted to talk but missed me. Like a punch to the gut but onto the next and hopefully their phone works next week so they can attend!
google voice is so fuckin unreliable these days.Can you use Google Voice, so that your true number is hidden?
why do you not have a business phone?Distance counselling sucks. Have to call from a private number so clients don't have my personal phone but it means if they miss me they can't call back easily. Was meant to start with someone earlier today and they didn't pick up twice in a row. Just got a tearful email as they really wanted to talk but missed me. Like a punch to the gut but onto the next and hopefully their phone works next week so they can attend!
Well then, TextFree or any other service that masquerades the real number?google voice is so fuckin unreliable these days.
I have one for my day job but I have 2 other therapy jobs outside that. Nobody wants 4 phones, plus to not be a jackass Id have to check them daily and I'm not doing that for a once a week thing.why do you not have a business phone?
Interesting idea dude, might make life easier. Will do some research.Can you use Google Voice, so that your true number is hidden?
Actually now that I think about it, @APRIL uses her Google Voice number all the time for business without issue.google voice is so fuckin unreliable these days.
Hey I was a shitty High school student. When I when to apply for college they said I couldn't attend because I took retard classes instead of college prep classes. My mom who worked at my high school as a lunch lady went to the administration to have them forge my transcript to say I took college prep classes.
I ended up doing nothing but drinking and playing Halo in college for three semesters. Then, I dropped out and went to tech for an electrical trade for one semester. Dropped out of that to work a shitty clerical job and get married. Went back for a 2-year transfer degree, making all A's in every class. Except math, well I did but actually it was my wife who took that class for me lol.
Now I work a great government job, doing almost nothing, that requires no degree. My biggest qualification was the phrase, "Yeah, I'm great with computers".
I do t even in now which Halo it was. I was mooching off a roommate's xbox. Didn't know shit about it. I was a always a playstation fanboy.fuck, halo 1 on 4 linked xboxs with cables running down the hall was amazing.
16 player blood gulch, yelling down the hall when you won.
Good memories.
Also... failed a bunch of classes, but had fun playing halo.