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did it ruin your life? |
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Yes! And I haven't even had the interview for the course yet! |
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If going to college is too hard for you, I dont see how you're going to make it through the rest of your life. College is easy. |
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yeah exactly. might as well kill myself then. |
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if you have droped out it doesn't matter really, you can just try again but take your time choosing the right course. i guess the problem is the massive fee inflation, but you could always try an open university course or something. it's a fraction of the cost |
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I quit after 2/4 years of art school to live with a girl. I think it was worth it, even though it exploded in my face, but I did/do miss the art school environment. I miss people with passion! |
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Dude, don't do it! :( Why are you thinking of leaving? I would say do it only if it is the very, very last resort! I know a couple who dropped outta uni and now they regret it massively. All that debt and nothing to show for it. Plus, uni kicks a lotta ass! :) And there are many people with passion at uni. Not to say there isn't outside uni, but people here are young and energetic and hopped up on knowledge, so it's a cool place to be! Which of course you know, cos you're at uni. Anyway, stick it out, don't quit. Also, even if you think this course is not for you, it always looks good to an employer, even if the degree is not appropriate to the job, cos you completed a 3/4 year course! :) So what are you studying and why are considering leaving? |
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That's a stupid thing to say, cos you don't know what experience he has had. Everyone's differs. |
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Literally everyone I know my age who attends uni and those older are all miserable, in debt and even more confused than me in regards to the future. I remember having an anxiety attack when I was simply on a tour. |
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Am studying psychology. It's a lot of work and my head is all over the place. I changed course from last year so I don't know if they will let me have a year out. In short, I need time to sort out my problems because they are getting in the way of my ability to perform intellectually. |
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i did didn't ruin mine it ruined 1 or 2 of my friends tho |
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that's might be bad experience. |
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thanks clark, you always have the best advice :) |
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:D! |
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If you are in anything but third year, I guess it could be okay to defer the rest of the course for a year. Thing is, would you stick to this plan of going back? Something else might get in the way, then you will have 2 years of uni debt and nothing to show. If you don't mind talking about it here, what problems are you having in your life that are stopping you concentrating on studies? |
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go to china. free pussy, free money, cheap food, cheap travel, friendly people, good life last year i met this argentinian guy in osaka that has been travelling for 5 years. he just travels the world taking whatever work he can get. he's lived in england, germany india, thailand, china, japan, singapore, and now hes in australia working as a roadie. he never got a degree, but he bought a couple of fake ones in thailand then in china he used them to get jobs. he worked as an english teacher and various dishwasher barwork jobs. he dont make much money and he doesnt eat much but he looks really smart and wears nice clothes, he aint no marxist hippie that watches charlie brooker or anything. it's all about image and presentation, if you look and act like a pro you can travel anywhere and do anything you want with your life |
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ps couchsurfing |
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I think everyone feels like dropping out at time especially in the 2nd year. Just grit your teeth and get on with it. You will regret it in the long run if you don't. remember it is always a bit of headfuck financially and personally. There is never a perfect time to do anything, just make the most of a bad thing. remember to try and have some fun on the way. The world of work is dull, political and endless, if you are lucky enough to get an awful career job. traveling afterwards is always a good idea if you can't get a decent job. Just do one in strange parts of the world. Your life is in front of you not behind you. chin up fella :) |
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I stopped going to community college. I guess you could call it dropping out, but it is community college and I was going to be taking photography. Instead they had me in drawing I drawing paper bags and stools. I tried to ask this girl out, she was all like yea i dunno, so I didn't go back. All the time I was driving my aunt mildred's car that had no air conditioning and am radio only so that was lame additionally. |
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I know dude, I was being mean and sarcastic on purpose. But seriously, I think Id lock my room and never come out to pass college rather than drop out. Having a degree is pretty important to me. Is the course to hard or are you just bored by it? If its the latter then I have no sympathy for you. Suck it up, my course is a bitch. Art students complaining about their course make me lol and facepalm at the same time. |
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As he said, the problem isn't to do with the difficulty of the course, it's other stuff going on in his life. That's what I meant by everyone's experience being different. It's not really the course which affects how well people do on it, but external stuff which influences the person on the course. But I am gonna shut up now, cos I am beginning to sound a tad pretentions. I don't really know very much on person-course dynamics. :P |
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I didnt realise you need permission to take a year out. They seem pretty lacks on that where I am. But make sure you tell them and theyre sort it for you. |
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Degree's aren't about showing you know so much about a subject most of the time, unless it's medicine, law or architecture. Having a degree shows to an employer that you went the distance, did the work and finished what you started. It's more about showing that you're committed and capable than anything else. Education is a business now, and yes universities will shaft as much money out of your as possible and there's no guarantee of a job when you're done either, but having any degree gives you more life options in the end. Easier to emigrate, easier to do Master's and conversion courses to change subject and specialise a few years later if you get a firmer idea of your future path. Easier to hired and easier to get promotions. Two more years out of your life when you're in your 20's is nothing compared to the 60 or so you're meant to have when you graduate. There's loads of shit involved (bad teachers, bad relationships, bad people, bad debt) but the bottom line is no one cares afterwards. They only look at the number on your degree. |
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*thumbs up* |
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Amen |
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How did it end, Razorz? Did you stay or go? Perhaps song will be good background music while you decide. :) |
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google multiversity, you can study with a cup a cocoa and sit in your boxer shorts. never drop out from google. |
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yup, google is great. |
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are u a RCA graduate? |
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Go to craigslist and search for the cheapest apartments around. You may have to move 20+ hours driving distance away or something. Also if it helps look at the minimum wage page on wikipedia to see which areas have high minimum wages. Then get some kick back easy job in some kick back rural area (I used to survive on my own on minimum wage, working part time no less) and let the cesspool of large cities with their university scams and billboards and crime and pollution sink into its own black hole far far away. |
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I was wondering, what job do you do? Tractern: still haven't decided. They haven't kicked me off yet but am thinking I will take a year out at least. If I don't come back I'll probably just end up doing something wMw style |
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I used to work in some stupid grocery store, bailing cardboard mostly because society gives the shittier lower paying jobs to introverts, if anything. I think rent was 400 a month and pay was minimum wage-ish, maybe 30 hours a week, I forget. I played street fighter or road rash ii on genesis by myself alllll day and ate cheap ass cereal until I developed wheat intolerance. |
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what do you do now if you don't mind me asking? |
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just browse online if u ask me. |
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I never went to uni. I am a proud member of the working. However i wouldn't suggest dropping out of uni, take drugs, fuck sluts, just don't drop out of uni. |
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Just don't do whatever Monoid does, cos then you'll end up being a Monoid. |
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clark's advice of just browsing online is pretty safe |
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Yeah, and most importantly, buy lots of products whilst online, all suggested kindly and selflessly by clark, too. |
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Dude, life has so much more to offer. What you have are personal problems. |
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uni is good for your brain uni aint good for you life brain good for life? |
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Phyton? How will this help you with your personal development? I think it won't |
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Been there (=uni) too long. Dropped out. Got a job. But after a couple years went back to get my bachelors. There's simply too many glass ceilings to try getting somewhere without some papers. You're either uber-talented, and don't need papers. Or you're the uber-dork, and even a whole lot of papers can't help. I'm somewhere in the middle and make 50k euros a year atm. Not bad for a pseudo drop-out, I guess. |
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