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bjanga

Turbo Monkey
Dec 25, 2004
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I am going to get the boot for my poor grades. Anyone got advice or a similar experience to share? I think I am pretty much screwed for the immediate future :help:
 

DirtyDog

Gang probed by the Golden Banana
Aug 2, 2005
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You are talking about college? (Or collage - that's how they spell it in Colorado).
 

LordOpie

MOTHER HEN
Oct 17, 2002
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Denver
bjanga said:
I am going to get the boot for my poor grades. Anyone got advice or a similar experience to share? I think I am pretty much screwed for the immediate future :help:
prostitution.
 

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
Jul 4, 2002
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bjanga said:
I am going to get the boot for my poor grades. Anyone got advice or a similar experience to share? I think I am pretty much screwed for the immediate future :help:
Get a job you can learn to live with for a while until you're sure you're ready to commit yourself to working hard at school. Simple as that. I might never graduate, but I wont be satisfied until I do.
 

skatetokil

Turbo Monkey
Jan 2, 2005
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DC/Bluemont VA
my mom dropped out of college. she went to work as a stock broker (requires no education, just sales skeels) and has been at the same firm for almost 30 years. now she makes mad bank and pays for my stupidly expensive private school.
 

Potroast88

YouTube Boy
Jan 18, 2004
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Bomb City
bjanga said:
I am going to get the boot for my poor grades. Anyone got advice or a similar experience to share? I think I am pretty much screwed for the immediate future :help:
I know a couple of girls that dropped out of my high school and they seem to be doing ok. They get like $15-$20 bucks for every BJ that they give. That's good coin!!
 

bjanga

Turbo Monkey
Dec 25, 2004
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San Diego
Its college, sorry about that.

Prostitution is not an option . . . although I am looking for a ride to the firestone classic and back ;)
 

DRB

unemployed bum
Oct 24, 2002
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Watchin' you. Writing it all down.
Try to make it one more semester. After your parents pay tuition drop out get the refund and go to Vegas. Put it all on 00. It'll work I swear. And if it doesn't prostitution is legal in Nevada.
 

GumbaFish

Turbo Monkey
Oct 5, 2004
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Yeah you can only attend public schools untill a certain age, I think 20 or 21...if you can't pass by then you are not welcome to give it yet another try.
 

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
Jul 4, 2002
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TN
Its wierd to read this as Im working on a research paper due tomorrow that Ive had weeks to do, yet have just started...HA!
 

sanjuro

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Sep 13, 2004
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SF
BurlyShirley said:
Its wierd to read this as Im working on a research paper due tomorrow that Ive had weeks to do, yet have just started...HA!
Your future stares you right in the face...
 

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
Jul 4, 2002
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TN
sanjuro said:
Your future stares you right in the face...
Hell its almost done now. Im much better under pressure.

Did you go back in the closet? Where's your thread?
 

-dustin

boring
Jun 10, 2002
7,155
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austin
one tenth of a point from being kicked out after my first semester at UT. have hated every day of school since then.
 

sanjuro

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Sep 13, 2004
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SF
bjanga said:
I am going to get the boot for my poor grades. Anyone got advice or a similar experience to share? I think I am pretty much screwed for the immediate future :help:
I have had my up and downs in school.

I think the most important thing is not to worry about what to do next, but why it happened in the first place.

Firstly, what you will do in the immediate future will be pretty obvious: you probably won't have many options. You will get a job and/or move back home. The worst thing to do is to sit around doing nothing.

But knowing why you flunked out will clear your mind for now, and help you to determine what to do in the future.
 

sanjuro

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Sep 13, 2004
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SF
BurlyShirley said:
Hell its almost done now. Im much better under pressure.

Did you go back in the closet? Where's your thread?
Not to derail this thread, but I was logged in at the shop while I was not there, and one of our fellow ridemonkies decided to post a message under my account.

I noticed the title but deleted it before I read any of it. So my sexuality will have to remain a deep secret, except in the bars and nightclubs of San Francisco.
 

ghettogt76

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Dec 5, 2001
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sanjuro said:
Not to derail this thread, but I was logged in at the shop while I was not there, and one of our fellow ridemonkies decided to post a message under my account.

I noticed the title but deleted it before I read any of it. So my sexuality will have to remain a deep secret, except in the bars and nightclubs of San Francisco.
Let me guess, loren?

And it's ok steve, we all know you are gay. Only heterosexual people like me wear pink sweatshirts.
 

maxyedor

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Oct 20, 2005
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bjanga said:
I am going to get the boot for my poor grades. Anyone got advice or a similar experience to share? I think I am pretty much screwed for the immediate future :help:
If you have no motivation to keep your grades up you shouldn't be there. Find something you're interested in and go that route where you're at right now clearly isn't for you. Or as has been sugested earlier sell your body.
 

sanjuro

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Sep 13, 2004
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SF
ghettogt76 said:
Let me guess, loren?

And it's ok steve, we all know you are gay. Only heterosexual people like me wear pink sweatshirts.
I don't know where you got that idea. Are you attracted to me, and that's why you hope I'm gay?
 

moff_quigley

Why don't you have a seat over there?
Jan 27, 2005
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Poseurville
bjanga said:
I am going to get the boot for my poor grades. Anyone got advice or a similar experience to share? I think I am pretty much screwed for the immediate future :help:
What are you doing that's causing you to get poor grades? Ditching class and assignments? Partying?

Is academic probation an option or were you already on probation?

As to the side topic of kicking kids out of public schools for bad grades...I work in the admissions office at CMSU (Missouri) and I've seen a HS transcript where the kid didn't pass but maybe one class a semester for his HS academic career. His school kept moving him from grade to grade. Pretty sad in my opinion.
 

Wumpus

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Dec 25, 2003
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Six Shooter Junction
the Inbred said:
one tenth of a point from being kicked out after my first semester at UT. have hated every day of school since then.

I got kicked out of UT for a semester for a 1.1gpa. Went back after the semester and withdrew while on probation. That earned me a three year suspension. Moved to California. Went to a JC and got my PE credits out of the way. Rode my bike, partied, worked for a couple of years. Then I got dumped by some girl for being a 'loser'. Decided it was time to finish school. Made the Dean's list for the next six years -- got tired of school and dropped out a few hours short of my masters.

If you aren't into school, take a break.
 

-dustin

boring
Jun 10, 2002
7,155
1
austin
i wish i would've done that. i was so close. everyone says "don't drop out, you'll never go back." every time i said i wanted to take a break, that's all i heard. that was harsh. my whole attitude towards Austin and UT would likely be way different. as it is, i can't stand the school or town, as i associate them both with me being forced to endure years of crap that i didn't want to.
 

sanjuro

Tube Smuggler
Sep 13, 2004
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SF
moff_quigley said:
What are you doing that's causing you to get poor grades? Ditching class and assignments? Partying?

Is academic probation an option or were you already on probation?
I should point out, that kind of simplification is never appreciated. When I had my problems in school, it was was all of this and none of it.
 

DirtyDog

Gang probed by the Golden Banana
Aug 2, 2005
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The good news is you will have an exciting career mowing my lawn and polishing the wheels on my Porsche :) Thank dog for cheap labor.
 

skatetokil

Turbo Monkey
Jan 2, 2005
2,383
-1
DC/Bluemont VA
borrow enough money for a plane ticket from your parents and then go to a third world country and teach english for a year or 2. that'll get your head on straight.
 

Smelly

Turbo Monkey
Jun 17, 2004
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out yonder, round bout a hootinany
Wumpus said:
If you aren't into school, take a break.
werd.
I don't know why so many people think that there's some sort of race to finish college. Further, I don't know why so many people spend thousands of dollars on college when they don't want to be there. I failed out after my freshman year, took a year off, worked and partied, and it was the second best thing I've ever done for myself. The first was dropping out of high school at 16, getting a GED, and going to college instead of doing my senior year of high school.
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
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Portland, OR
I dropped out of high school after my junior year. I tried JC, but just wasn't motivated. I joined the Navy on a 2 year contract and worked my ass off. When I was done, I went to ITT (mistake) on the GI Bill and got my AAS in Electronic Engineering. After a few small time gigs in electronic repair and tech support, I landed an entry job as a software engineer. I've been a software engineer for 10 years now and love it.

2 years ago I decided to return to school and get my BS in Computer Science, I'll be done in 8 more weeks.

School isn't for everyone, but an education can be the difference when landing a good job. But don't force it, you might be ready for it after some time off. My first time off was 3 years, my second was 8 years. My wife says if I go back to school after this, she is divorcing me :D
 

WestRider7

Chimp
Feb 19, 2006
43
0
Boise
Ya, it sounds like junior college for you buddy. Don't worry though, I'm there right now, and am doing a long retarded stint, but I am transfering to Western Washington in a year to major in Material Engineering so I can work on designing composite stuff, say a DH rig that weighs 30 pounds.
 

laura

DH_Laura
Jul 16, 2002
6,259
15
Glitter Gulch
skatetokil said:
borrow enough money for a plane ticket from your parents and then go to a third world country and teach english for a year or 2. that'll get your head on straight.
If i were to have taken a break from school, this is what i would have done. or joined the peace corps.

If you take a break do something worth while. don't piss your time away. I took one semester off during my 6 years of higher education and did absolutely nothing but work and drink and i sort of regret it.
 

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
Jul 4, 2002
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TN
Hey man, there's always the military. That's what I did right out of highschool and oddly enough, it's actually what taught me to be a good student. You might even get to kill a guy!