Posted: 4/6/2007 4:44:54 PM EDT
| I am by no means a hard charger academic. My grades are medium in some places (fucking terrible in few) and excellent in many, I am in honors classes (which are slightly more intense than regular classes). Regardless, I want to get out of here. No that doesnt mean dropping out, I would never even consider that. I am junior currently. I am wondering, although I should talk to my guidance conselour as he will know, is there a way I can take extra classes over the internet during summertime so I can graduate earlier next year? I know it is unlikely but I figure I should ask around. I am wondering if there is one of those magic internet schools specifically for this. After the end of junior year my academic requirments will be one more english class and one more history class plus some miselanious electives to get the needed credits for graduation. My plan is to enlist once I graduate, I am not planning on colledge for the moment so I wont be sad if some beat internet courses make my diploma look less than Ivy league material. |
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In WWII guys your age would climb into aluminum bombers for 10 hour missions knowing they had a 5% -10% chance of dying every time they did it. Some flew home holding their intestines in with their arms until they could get medical attention. I think you can reach deep within yourself for the fortitude to suck it up and, you know, go to a few classes each day. Just to put things in perspective. |
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Go to class. Apply yourself. Do the work. Talk to your guidance counselor for advice. Suck it up. High school may suck but there is no magic internet school that can help you shape up. You could go to summer school if you wanted to graduate early. Class of 2004 here. And break up your thread into paragraphs. Didn't you learn ANYTHING in school? |
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Suck it up, 10 years from now you will be glad you did. Proper application of effort now will be the difference in ending up with a nice career and a more comfortable life or working at Mickey-D's and never having two nickels to rub together. And get a haircut and tuck your shirt in. Put your hat on the right way,too. 
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And pull your fucking pants up!!!!! 
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Take sample test ASVAB Online Course, from what I understand the govt will give you a test that is similar but for the record, and the results of this test will determine what you will be doing in the military. How did you score? Did you score 100% |
Reading is fundamental
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Ouch. A bitch slap like that has GOT to sting. 
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Other side of the fence here. Dropped out after my second year of HS a few months before I turned 17. Got my GED that summer, and hit the road as soon as I was 18. Never enlisted or went to college. Was rough going for a bit, a few stretches of living in the car and eating ramen noodles dry, but I managed. Wouldn't trade any of the experiences I had, don't regret a thing. Living the good life today, doing as well or better than anyone from what would have been my graduating class. Definitely not a plan for everyone, but some times some people need to strike out and make their own path. Whatever you decide, don't let anyone judge you on it or try to guilt trip you into taking another route. Whichever way you go, there will be people before you that have taken that path and succeeded, and plenty more that have failed. |
| I was exactly in your shoes. When I was 16, I enrolled in Minnesota's PSEO program. It allows students to take college classes at the University during high school and the state paid for it. My grades went through the roof and I graduated college at 18, went straight to law school and graduated there the same year my old HS classmates graduated from college. Got a real head start on my career. |