
Liberating Minds
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 | Subject: High School Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:53 am | |
| There's a HS Diploma program at the college I go to here, and they let you take tests for credits and to challenge having to take classes. I just passed every pre-test, every test and did my 'senior project' in five hours. Seriously - it took me five hours of zero effort to get a highschool diploma.
And they make you do this for four years.
And I haven't done a school assignment since third grade.
God, the government is retarded.
Also, people who can't pass those classes are dumbasses. |
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Number of posts: 144 Registration date: 2007-07-21
 | Subject: Re: High School Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:53 pm | |
| well done though. what you doing in college? what classes and what not? |
|  | | Cassandra

Number of posts: 138 Location: Australia Registration date: 2009-07-17
 | Subject: Re: High School Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:38 pm | |
| I did something similar to you years ago, Vichy. I left school at 15 with my intermediate School certificate and got a job within 2 weeks. Three years later, I was able to get flexible work at thrice the pay and enrolled to do my HSC (final school graduation in Australia) at a technical college. While there is technically an 80% attendance required, all being based on a final exam I was able to get around this.
I taught myself what I needed to know while living away from home, working and having a full social life. I also did not suffer from the sleep deprivation that many teenages seem to suffer from today due to being forced in routines that do not suit their circumstances. I also did it in one year instead of the two kids spend at school. |
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 | Subject: Re: High School Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:11 am | |
| A transfer degree Associate of the Arts, then an English degree, then a teaching certification, then an econ degree. For reasons of moving to China. Overall, what I'm looking at attending here is:
WR121 English Composition I WR227 Technical Writing SP111 Fundamentals of Public Speaking MTH111 College Algebra HE250 Personal Health HPE295 Health and Fitness for Life PHL101, 102, 103 Philosophical Problems, Ethics, Critical Reasoning Eng104-106 Introduction to English Literature Hum101 Introduction to Humanities
Econ201 Principles of Microeconomics Econ202 Principles of Macroeconomics HST104-105 History of World Civilization I & II
PH201-203 General Physics I, II & III MTH243 Probability and Statistics
And some courses I was supposed to take but I was able to challenge/test out of. I could probably test out of half my math classes, too, but I'd like to actually spend a few months in elementary math so I can remember all the functions. |
|  | | Conrad

Number of posts: 5647 Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands Registration date: 2007-07-21
 | Subject: Re: High School Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:15 am | |
| | Cassandra wrote: | I did something similar to you years ago, Vichy. I left school at 15 with my intermediate School certificate and got a job within 2 weeks. Three years later, I was able to get flexible work at thrice the pay and enrolled to do my HSC (final school graduation in Australia) at a technical college. While there is technically an 80% attendance required, all being based on a final exam I was able to get around this.
I taught myself what I needed to know while living away from home, working and having a full social life. I also did not suffer from the sleep deprivation that many teenages seem to suffer from today due to being forced in routines that do not suit their circumstances. |
you're so very right about this. I was sleep-deprived constantly in high school. It really is a very mild form of torture. I wonder whether it did permanent damage. |
|  | | Conrad

Number of posts: 5647 Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands Registration date: 2007-07-21
 | Subject: Re: High School Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:16 am | |
| | vichy wrote: | A transfer degree Associate of the Arts, then an English degree, then a teaching certification, then an econ degree. For reasons of moving to China. Overall, what I'm looking at attending here is:
WR121 English Composition I WR227 Technical Writing SP111 Fundamentals of Public Speaking MTH111 College Algebra HE250 Personal Health HPE295 Health and Fitness for Life PHL101, 102, 103 Philosophical Problems, Ethics, Critical Reasoning Eng104-106 Introduction to English Literature Hum101 Introduction to Humanities
Econ201 Principles of Microeconomics Econ202 Principles of Macroeconomics HST104-105 History of World Civilization I & II
PH201-203 General Physics I, II & III MTH243 Probability and Statistics
And some courses I was supposed to take but I was able to challenge/test out of. I could probably test out of half my math classes, too, but I'd like to actually spend a few months in elementary math so I can remember all the functions. |
That's cool, I guess, if you're into that sort of thing...
why English literature though? and why no philosophy? |
|  | | Guest Guest
 | Subject: Re: High School Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:37 am | |
| "why English literature though?" I'm going to teach in China & Singapore, and a BA in English is excellent to have in addition to anything else. I'm going to get degrees in economics and a minor in philosophy later, probably in China where it costs 1/6th normal.
If you look, there are 3 Philosophy classes on that list, though.
Also, that's a transfer degree at a 2 year college. I'm going to focus on rhetoric, grammar, composition and instruction for my BA because I don't really care about English literature beyond Carlyle and science fiction. |
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