#113 u sound so pathetic that i have a feeling u havent been laid for a loooooong time :D hm, and ur deep knowledge of internet use only proves it lol

@a_borshunist - Get over yourself. Words have different meanings in different places. I don't know where you're from, but as you're complaining about the use of the word college, I'd guess UK, in which case, I reckon I'd talk a lot different to you even though we're from the same place. I apologise if the assumption about where you live is incorrect. Also, skipping secondary school classes to sell drugs is just stupid. Also, college can be to do alevels as well as vocational courses. Also, some people aren't in the best places to get jobs, I live literally in the middle of nowhere, before I was seventeen I had no practical method of transport that would get me anywhere with enough time to make it worth my while, so a job was out of the question as my parents would be too busy to give me lifts there and back. As a student my parents are pretty much paying for all my university education - the government won't help - but they don't mind because they know I'll be responsible with the money they give me. It is not necessarily a parenting fail to want your kids to do well by funding their education, this is a case of child fail where he doesn't understand the value of all his parents do for him. /rant.

Dude, move to a society that values education and intellect and tell their university students they go to a college. They'll throw a brick through your window and shit in your bed while you sleep, I guarantee it. They'll be rightfully offended -- I would. I didn't bust my ass saving up tuition money and writing essays to be confused with some burnt-out 35-year-old human resources drone looking for a promotion or some naive kid who knows how to cook a few dishes and therefore thinks kitchen work is a viable long-term career plan. Colleges and universities are completely different things: different programs, different classes, different objectives, different learning styles, different community, etc. You don't see much overlap, except in a few programs like Social Work where the practical job-focused learning of college is combined with the theoretical, intellectual-development-focused learning of university. Also, skipping class to sell drugs *is* a good idea. These are high school classes -- the things they teach you could be covered in a few days by anyone with half a brain. Just pull a few essays out of your ass and do some joke of a multiple-choice exam where they practically give you the answers right before it starts and you'll get your six 12U credits. I think I actually studied properly for maybe 2 courses throughout all of high school, and only because the teacher completely disregarded the curriculum and actually challenged her students. After grade 10 I barely even showed up to class, and I still graduated with an 84 average. I won the history award, even though I came to maybe 2 classes a week. And even then I barely even followed the curriculum; I just monopolized the class discussion with whatever my pet cause was at the time and the teacher was more than willing to let me because she was so refreshed to see someone who wasn't retarded open their mouth to speak. I wrote half my essays stoned and even then they were masterpieces compared to the shit the other students churned out. So don't tell me high school is difficult or that it takes study skills, all you need to excel is a functioning brain (and I use that term very loosely -- the bar keeps sinking lower.) And STFU about jobs. Move elsewhere. There's no excuse for living in a shithole backwater for half your life. Have a ******* contingency plan. Always. Never depend entirely on any one source of income -- always have a backup plan. Always have supplementary income and transferable skills. Network. Negotiate. Hustle. Money doesn't come to you -- you go to money. I could've easily stayed in retail and restaurants wasting away for 20 hours a week and $8/hour but I did the intelligent thing and landed some lifeguard gigs in the private sector, made some investments and ripped open any loopholes in OSAP that I could to cover my tuition costs. If I didn't like my working conditions, I negotiated for better. When I worked in the public sector I actually went to the union meetings instead of bitching needlessly about the low pay and power-tripping bureaucrats.

I am in a society that values education. Why do you think I think that you shouldn't skip classes to sell drugs? I'd rather go to the classes and keep my attendance up so that the teachers don't all hate me to give me leniancy for missing classes (for good reasons) when I got into the sixth form (or as you know it, college) because they knew I was a damn good student and trustworthy. Also, awards at my secondary school, meant very little (I know because I won one, which is exactly why I think they're worth so little). At sixth form they meant a little more. And where did you study to do multiple choice exams? I didn't have any multiple choice exams until I did General Studies Alevel, and that was by force because the 'Arts' students needed help with science. Shame they didn't bother to help us scientists with the rest of that. Also, those 'masterpiece' of essays were just comparitive? Sure you weren't just put in with those who struggled with those subjects? I can't write essays for squat, doesn't make me stupid. I call my place of study a University, that's what I've grown up being taught what it was. However in America they talk different. The way the North of England can talk different to the South. It doesn't matter, one word cannot determine your level of intelligence. Also, when I did my Alevels, I studied, in my way, in a similar way to how I now study at University, yes, it's laid out differently, my hours, content, difficulty, strictness is all different. But its still studying. A lot of people called it college, and it was academic. Not so different. Also, in america don't you have different schooling split? Like elementary, middle and high rather than primary, secondary and college? Also, when I said some people live in places where getting a job would be difficult, I was reffering to part time jobs you get before you go to university to help pay for your university. You want people to start moving home when they're thirteen? I don't think so. Yes, for an actual job, that's full time and will support you completely for life - then yes you move to where there is a job. There is a difference. And don't give me that lecture about 'transferrable skills' and 'networking' I've had that being drummed into my head since the lowest years of secondary. Surprisingly people get them naturally...unless they're cocky little things that expect the world to do as they say and that they don't have to work.