okay, so how many of you don't have college degrees?

Representz!

:(

QED: every book published by routl*dge evah

Am I the only Brit with no education? *hangs head*

Well sod YOU lot, I am going to read Rimbaud in French tonight!! This is for no psuedy reason, I am just depressed and mopey and angsty and a ponce. I guess it's not the act of intelligence and you lot could all do it better and oh why do I bother *runs away crying*

Sad thing is, I did too. ARGH.

This is pretty patently offensive and classist, don't you think? I don't see how intelligence has anything to do with whether or not someone can afford to go to college. Then again, in America, they do force us to pay our own way...which basically results in a system where monkeys like George W. Bush or JFK Jr. can go to any school they want to, and incredibly intelligent people have to drop out halfway thru because the debt is too staggering.

But AHA once I haf read UNE SAISON EN ENFER (hawheehaw) I shall haf GRATE BRANE and you shall all ph33r my pulsating "grey matter".

I think my bedroom already contains pulsating grey matter but that's best not thought about.

Instead, I framed my Hamburger Eating Contest Champion certificate and hung it up on my wall, most people don't look close enough to actually read what it says anyway.

revelation, huh?

obviously this is a joke. I met enough tards in college to know that being able to scrape the points to get into third level education is no guarantee of brain-elite membership.

I went to a state school (as IF I could go anywhere else) and I really liked it actually, but it's taking me forever to pay back my loans. I have SO many of them. BLECHHHHHHH!

Case in point: Dubya is a Yale gradjeeit.

Does this include 'Punk Rock So What: The Cultural Legacy of Punk'??

i am a little insecure about my present situation. i hope mark s was being faceitous because i hope to, after putting in a lot of work on my own, write well and maybe even contribute something meaningful to intellectual discourse whether i get the money to go back to school or not.

law school is another matter (though i got some parental help for that). and i'm financing my LL.M. by myself. i could bitch about the general credential/school-snobbiness of lawyers and law firms (i.e., if Dubya had gone to Harvard Law instead of Harvard Business, who'd want to bet he'd be on the Supreme Court now?), but that will interest very few people here. the most irritating thing about it is, that everyone knows what bullshit it is but there's no incentive to change it.

:/

Oh boy I think my biggest wish in life is that I'd have never gone to college, and just worked at Kinko's and doodled...I think that's the best I can hope for. I could have done it debt free that way.

i can't say that i regret undergrad (or that debt).

the only thing my college degree got me was a husband (in a roundabout way). in terms of work it has not been in any way useful.

didn't get one, still have massive regret for even trying

i enjoy college more for the fun than for academic stuff or job stuff.

I want to go to college if only for the fact I could make more money from financial aid than at my current job. :\

financial aid is like living on a credit card ... which can never be discharged

college was dope

thx, asher

*googles "college was dope", gets whiney's reference*

ha!

Started back at school this semester, just in time to coincide with my 10yr reunion- still have no clue what I want to do. I'm two years away from a degree in history, English or fine arts/photography. Add a year for secondary teacher certification (which I'd be good at, I think, if I could deal with the bureaucracy)

Amazed when I encounter people my age (or younger!) with careers and shit and who knew exactly what they wanted out of life @ 18.
Sort of thinking that I'm either going to develop the Unified Field Theory of the Good Life or die penniless and broken.

People who know exactly what they want out of life at 18 are usually a) very boring, b) self centred arseholes, c) very boring self centred arseholes.

haha otm

Honestly, the idea of not going to college is really foreign to me. My wife didn't go to college and she has a full and satisfying life, but I absolutely could not have my chosen career without a college degree. So yeah, I honestly can't imagine not having gotten a degree, but my financial situation wasn't so difficult and that's obviously a major, major factor in all this.

didn't go, p much fuck that shit imo. but thats imo

and to cover my ass here, it actually was just not the right thing fr me. knowledge is obv super sweet

and expensive

What are people who don't know what they want out of life at 31?

ilxors?

beat me to it.

Haha, yep.

stopped after two years of studying liberal artsy nonsense like literature and music and critical theory and crap. kind of want to go back, but for like an accounting certificate or something.

did a four year business degree. wish every day that i'd done some liberal artsy nonsense instead tbph

i'm in the reverse situation.

we shuold have done degrees in comparitive agrostology obviously

i don't have a degree! eat a dick boffins!

maybe with that degree you wouldn't be FORMER MOD just sayin

no

who needs degree when madonna on youtube?

moderators are the fascist insects that prey upon the life of the people, glad i got out

you cant see me but i'm doing the drinky drinky hands alec baldwin uses in glengarry glen ross right now

maybe there is an alternate universe in which lemmings and moths to the flame can read. words

xxxxpost: you need an undergrad degree, plus a certain # of additional credits in certain classes in order to become a CPA.

I don't know what I want out of life, either, and I'm 42.

I've dropped out of college three times. The first time was for a few semesters in 1988-1990 at a community college. I was way too immature to go; I skipped classes and didn't do much of my schoolwork. Two important things happened to me here: I lost my virginity to a classmate and had my first online experience, a thing I fell in love with immediately. After I dropped out, I enrolled in massage class on a whim and met my husband there. We married in 1993.

I tried college again in 1994, and spent more time exploring the Internet on their computers than I did studying. I got a bit spooked by the first session of English class and the professor's insistence that we get up in front of all of our classmates and tell them all about ourselves--more the telling them about myself part than the public speaking part. I spent the rest of those classes hiding out in the bathroom. (I was, in retrospect, quite mentally ill then.) I dropped out after about two months.

I tried yet again in 1999. I honestly can't remember when I dropped out this time, I was still going when I first started posting here. The story was the same as all of the other attempts: incomplete assignments and poor attendance. One thing I haven't mentioned yet: Up until a few years ago, I had a serious phobia about writing. Writing always felt like I was exposing too much of myself to the world. A few years later, I took a three-month nurses' aide course and I've been doing that ever since. And there's the nursing school I was kicked out of, but that's a post all in itself.

xxxxpost: you need an undergrad degree, plus a certain # of additional credits in certain classes in order to become a CPA.

― Carmine Dirtnap Returns!! (Eisbaer), Sunday, September 19, 2010 8:16 PM (18 minutes ago)

yep - but you can work in accounting and not be a CPA

Oh boy I think my biggest wish in life is that I'd have never gone to college, and just worked at Kinko's and doodled...I think that's the best I can hope for. I could have done it debt free that way.

I have said a version of that many times...I was even lucky enough to get out of undergrad debt free, because of scholarships. But two years of grad school was a death sentence for me.

who needs degree when madonna on youtube?

― dude (del), Monday, September 20, 2010 2:18 AM (1 year ago)

otm?