Teh Suckz Thread

[SugarCorpse]

Thank you kitkat and cirquemom (whose user name suddenly makes a lot of sense) =D i kinda wanted to just get it and get school over with before when i dropped out the first time but everyone said things that made me feel like dropping out was just giving up on life and that a ged is isnt as good as a diploma.... and a lot of people made me feel like they expected me to never finish high school anyways and it made me really want to prove to myself that i could. 2 of my ex best friends from high school actually started making fun of me for not finishing =/like to the point where i dont talk to them anymore.....

funny thing about that is one had a kid november 6th and the other one is pregnant too and neither of them have steady jobs or have been dating their boyfriends for more than a year... they also both dropped out of college after the first few months..... they bothered me about not acting like a grown up when all they did after high school was party till they couldnt handle college and then get knocked up before they were ready to have a kid... like i know so many people who had kids young who were amazing moms but my ex friends werent even allowed to have pets cause they couldnt take care of them...they also cant seem to live in one place for more than a few months with out having to move back in with their parents in between... so... if thats growing up and being successful at least i'm not "grown up" like they are yet....

I want to either get into hair styling or tattooing but im not really sure ho to do either of those things x_x

there is a hair school in my city though.... so i'll look into what i need for that before deciding if i should get out of high school again or not... online it says i need basic high school or a GED =D

[Jany]

*hugs*
You'll find a way! GED sounds like a good alternative to me. After college or basically any other form of education, no one will ever ask whether or not anyone's got a high school diploma. It's just a slip of paper you may or may not need to start doing what you really want to do. Once you're in, nobody gives much of a darn really.
Seriously, if I were in your place and there was literally ANY way at all to avoid high school and still get the slip of paper in question, I'd go for it.

[SugarCorpse]

*hugs*
You'll find a way! GED sounds like a good alternative to me. After college or basically any other form of education, no one will ever ask whether or not anyone's got a high school diploma. It's just a slip of paper you may or may not need to start doing what you really want to do. Once you're in, nobody gives much of a darn really.
Seriously, if I were in your place and there was literally ANY way at all to avoid high school and still get the slip of paper in question, I'd go for it.

yeah i think i mightm but i wanna talk it over with people first..... x_X see whats best.

[DollyKim]

Maybe you can get to the bottom about what it is about the school thing that gets to you, the deadlines, the work load, the people? I agree that no one really cares if you graduated high school, I "graduated" from home school because I would have killed myself or someone else had I been left at regular school. When I was recovered I started with community college. That's the diploma I show off.

I don't know if they have it elsewhere but we have telecourses where you watch a TV show at home and meet on campus a few times. Or are there on line classes you can take? Is there something where you can earn a certificate which lets you work in your chosen field without having to take extra classes you don't want/need?

As for my personal suck I hope I'm not getting sick

[EAB]

Sugarcorpse, high school is the WORST! It scarred me emotionally SO MUCH, but it is not the center of life. So many of the cool kids I went to school with had high school as the pinnacle of their lives, which looks really sad a few years down the road. Get the GED. And I think you can learn to be a hairdresser at a specialty school, so you don't have to do the two years of basic courses that you have to in college. I don't know anything about tattooing, but I'll bet it's the same sort of thing.
Three women at my church (that I know of) are hairdressers. They make good money, and they're still employed while almost everyone I know who opted for Wall Street is out of a job.
Go a different way and make a great life for yourself. College is great for college professors, but I think they brainwashed the country into thinking everyone had to have a college degree. I have two. Neither one has gotten me much of anywhere.
Don't listen to any voices that tear you down. Constructive criticism given with love is one thing, but battering someone down to build yourself up is quite another. I personally think it took a lot of courage to go back to stupid high school when you were older than the majority of kids there. You have grit, stick-to-itivness (?) and a clear vision. You will do will. God bless you.

[PerlaNemesis]

*hugs everyone* I'm sorry I didn't read much but I hope everything gets better for you.

Another day that started well but ended poorly. Yet again I was called dumb (not directly but he made me feel bad for not knowing about how this whole "clouds" thing works). Then mom started yelling and in the end, after dad took our dog for a walk, she blamed me for everything. Every word I said in my defence annoyned her even more. She kept saying how I get in her way. Combine this with another fight few days ago about lack of money (which made me feel so bad for buying the I have wanted since I got in BJDs). Why everytime something happens it has to be my fault? I'm so tired of being in other people's ways. I understand that I'm not particulary bright but these constant reminders of my low inteligence and how I'm in everyone's ways doesn't make me feel any better. Oh, and the relantionship between me and my friend didn't change. She's still not talking to me and I couldn't find a moment to talk just the two of us. Also, I'm scared of talking to her. She always gives me that cold face as if I was responsible for all the bad things that ever happened in her life. We finished our project but kept talking to minimum. Other girls of my group are still talking and probably don't know what happened between me and my friend. After getting into university (I'm 1st year student of English Philology and German language) and realizing that people want to talk to me, I tried being girl like others. Sometimes talking to others was very tiring but I hoped that I finally have close friends. Apperently I still screwed up. At times like this I wish I coud run away from my family and university. I want to be left alone but don't have my own corner to cry at. Sometimes I wish I could just break down and cry loudly for hours until I get better. I wish I could tell someone everything I keep bottled inside me but I can't.

[Lamia of the Dark]

Someone I bought a doll from on ebay broke the doll's leg off when they were packing it for shipping. (One of the vintage metallic Spectra dolls... ) Flaky seller promised a refund the next day, I sent a message 3 days later when the refund never showed up, still hasn't refunded my money yet...

T_T I haaaaaaaate when ebay sales go bad.

[cirquemom]

....a ged is isnt as good as a diploma....

True. If you are trying to get into Stanford, or Harvard, or some big fancy university as a freshman. However, there is NOTHING wrong with getting your GED, then going to junior college and getting an AA, and then transferring as a junior to a four-year college. It actually makes a LOT of sense financially. In California if you have an AA from an accredited community college, you are guaranteed entry into the University of California system.
I even have a friend whose son was home-schooled all the way from kindergarten through high school, and he got into Stanford, graduated, and then got into the PhD program in Physics there.

There are really a lot of options. Neither of my daughters have college degrees and they both have great jobs (one works as a Vet Tech- the ex-circus, ex-ballerina daughter- no vet tech degree, she just got hired by a vet who trained her; the other one went to two years of photography school, then started as a file clerk at the local clinic, worked her way up until she was asst. to a hospital administrator in San Francisco, took those skills and got hired as an admin. asst. in one of the major museums, and just left there to work as the asst. to the International Branding Strategist of a very well-known fashion establishment).

Just follow your passion- if you think you want to do hair, then really you don't need to prove anything to anyone, just get your GED or diploma however you can, don't worry about what anyone else says (and like you said, look at them now, right?) and move on. I know people who do hair who make a TON of money, way more than a lot of college graduates I know.

That said- the easiest and quickest way to graduate seems like it would be working out those computer issues, so if it were me, I think I would try to resolve that somehow.

Good luck!

[knittnkitten]

it can be incredibly frustrating to a person when someone you know doesn't live up to the intellectual potential they could have.

[EAB]

PerlaNemesis, I am so sorry that you are in such pain. You seem to be everyone's favorite scapegoat. It is shattering. When people keep telling you you're stupid, you begin to believe it and make more mistakes, which makes you feel more stupid, etc.
I expect you're a gentle soul, and that encourages all the bullies around you to build themselves up by cutting you down.
Is there a counseling center at your school where you could talk to someone? Are you in a church? Try to find someone that you can talk to.
I will keep you in my prayers. Love and blessings.