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Eat it, Barbelith! I just graduated!

 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
23:11 / 05.05.06
So yeah, after years of wasting lots money and time, I finally got on the ball and got my associates in Liberal Arts. I'll be off to a university this fall. I'd be happier if it weren't for the fact that my brother, who is a mere year and a half older than me, just got his masters. Also, my little sister will likely be getting her degree before me too. But I can be sure that I've had at least twice as much fun as the two of them combined, so it's not all shame here.

Looking back at my college career, I have to say: there's not much to look at, and most of it is embarrassing. My first three semesters at a Tennessee university were spent mainly getting fucked up and sleeping well into the afternoon. I was given the boot for academic and judicial reasons (I even had to promise I would not attempt to return to that university. They refused to give me a copy of my transcript until I had done so in writing. Who knew the Dean of Judicial Affairs had such a crappy sense of humor?) and left with roughly a semester's worth of college credit.

But I'm back on track now. I have a plan and everything. It has two parts:

1. Go to school

2. While in school, wait for next plan to make itself apparent

Hell yeah! I'm off to take the world by the scrotum. Watch me go.
 
 
lekvar
23:24 / 05.05.06
Yeah? Well I got MY associate's three years ago, and mine's in Genreal Education. Specialization is for suckers, sucker.

Seriously, congratulations. Nothing beats that feeling of accomplishment.
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
23:39 / 05.05.06
Congrats! Degrees rule!

Not that I would know... My college career sounds eerily similar to yours, except for the going back to school and getting a degree part. I think I had five semesters of sleeping around, getting fucked up and not going to class, and I have just enough credits to make me an official sophmore.

I'm jealous, now. Is it tough to get back into the groove of going to school, especially if one never bothered to establish such a groove in the first place?
 
 
ibis the being
23:43 / 05.05.06
Well done TG. Now you have to tell us what you did wrong to get permanently banned from school. Just kidding, you don't HAVE to tell us. I can respect your privacy. It's just that, if you don't tell us, you're going to have to leave Barbelith, and you can't use any other message boards until you sign a written statement that you won't ever come back to Barbelith.
 
 
Ganesh
23:45 / 05.05.06
Well done, Tuna. I'm eating it, and enjoying the taste (mmm... tuna...). The fact that your siblings are also excelling, tertiary education-wise, doesn't diminish your own achievement. Your two-step plan (for world domination and beyond) sounds eminently sensible to me.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:45 / 05.05.06
gratz.

Sorry, I've been playing too many MMORPGs... it's like you've just levelled up or something. Hey, maybe now you can learn to dual-wield!!!

Seriously, nice one.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
23:45 / 05.05.06
Nah. I only not in school for roughly a year, I got back into it by taking just a couple classes at a time.

It shames me to say so, but I think the biggest impetus for me starting to take school seriously was the fact that it started coming out of my own pocket after I fucked up. You'd be amazed at how quickly I stopped getting high before class once I started paying for it myself.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:47 / 05.05.06
gratz.

Sorry, I've been playing too many MMORPGs... it's like you've just levelled up or something. Hey, maybe now you can learn to dual-wield!!!

Seriously, nice one.
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
23:49 / 05.05.06
You'd be amazed at how quickly I stopped getting high before class once I started paying for it myself

That would probably do it, yeah. I had a free ride, so it was amazing how quickly "getting high before going to class" turned into "getting high before not going to class."

It may have been two months, but probably less.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
23:52 / 05.05.06
nice work, sir.

And I don't know how shaming that is. I know I had a very different attitude to first degree (grants still existed to cover fees and give me enough wiggle room to make up the diff through a bit of work and preferential students loans) and my MA (paid for by miserable year at family home working 3 jobs)

I was invested and motivated to a greater degree on the second stint that isn't expressable without very big numbers. Age also plays a part, I think.

But mainly... Rah to you
 
 
Ganesh
23:54 / 05.05.06
It shames me to say so, but I think the biggest impetus for me starting to take school seriously was the fact that it started coming out of my own pocket after I fucked up. You'd be amazed at how quickly I stopped getting high before class once I started paying for it myself.

Tell me about it. Being of advanced decrepitude and a UK child of divorced parents, my University tuition was paid for by the State. My post-graduate degree, however, was funded by me and me only. Cost me a stupid amount to sit the final exam and, when I failed it the first time around, I huuugely resented the fact that my £400-odd would pay for a square foot of carpet in the Royal College of Psychiatrists (or whatever) instead of new latex couture for sexypartyorgy clubbing. Really gave me impetus to pass the sodding thing the second time around.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
01:03 / 06.05.06
Understandable, although I would have imagined being a doctor is just as handy as neat latex duds. Over here in the states it's always wise, during a sexyclubpartyorgy, to have a doctor on hand (so to speak).

Now you have to tell us what you did wrong to get permanently banned from school.

I sound like a delinquent, but I doubt it's permanent. University rules are that any student's judicial record is wiped clean after five years if there are no convictions. The police stopped giving a rat's ass a couple days after the incident but that jerk of a Dean just would not let it go. And I was failing most of my classes anyway, so it broke nobody's heart when I got the boot.
 
 
Ganesh
01:10 / 06.05.06
... being a doctor is just as handy as neat latex duds

Sometimes the two can even be combined. Sexyparty(s)urg(er)y!
 
 
Jack Denfeld
01:19 / 06.05.06
Congrats Tuna!
 
 
matthew.
03:00 / 06.05.06
I just graduated from uni with a B.A. in English! Yay! and now, drumroll please, big announcement, I'm going to France to teach English in a French high school! YaY! So any French 'lithers, PM me, 'cause we'll go out drinking and singing and drinking and drinking.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
03:25 / 06.05.06
Congrats Matt! Well done sir.
 
 
sibyline, beating Qalyn to a Q
12:17 / 06.05.06
hey congrats tuna! and i agree with others about not letting sibling rivalry diminish your accomplishments. and guess what, you have life experience!

i myself have taken the path of mischievous responsibility. having figured out early on that having good grades was the main way of getting my parents off my back, i'm managing to deflect life through overeducation.
 
  
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