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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2013 - 05:11pm PT
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I is what I is. I fell into everything in life, no master plan I prefer to feel my way along, trusting intuition, smarts, a gentle touch, a strong back and a very tough hide.
I'm a f*#k up in other words. But I land on my feet most of the time. Thus my ankles, feet and back have born the brunt of my mistakes.
Kindred spirits. :-)
Edit: I've landed on my back, ass, and head a few times in the process.
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The Call Of K2 Lou
climber
The 'burbs of Vancouver
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Dec 18, 2013 - 05:18pm PT
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Another f*#k up here. Never completed all the courses required for graduation, but waltzed on in to college a couple years later on the basis of high GED scores. I now have more university credits than high school credits.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Dec 18, 2013 - 05:24pm PT
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but cannot remember my locker combination
What's that? They made us stash our sh#t under a rock in the woods behind the log schoolhouse.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Dec 18, 2013 - 05:25pm PT
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I'm a college drop out
never finished my degree - majored in accounting
zzzzzzzz
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Dec 18, 2013 - 05:35pm PT
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My family moved around a lot so it was difficult to finish high school, especially since I had already started climbing and backpacking. I barely got through it, and was really hating it - Stoney Point was where the action was! I got far enough to say I'm a college drop out though. College drop-outs can at least say they are in good company........with these folks;
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1988080_1988093_1988082,00.html
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Dec 18, 2013 - 05:57pm PT
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I'm with Greg, if I had been graded on tests and in class work, I would have been near the top of my class. But, I hated homework. Skiing, climbing, and being lazy kept me from doing homework. I graduated with a 2.3 GPA but got a 1290 on my SAT without any preparation.
In retrospect, part of me wishes I'd attended college, but most of me appreciates that I didn't. I chose trade work, carpentry specifically, and it's still what I love to do. No need for a degree, or even a GED to pursue this trade. Intelligence is key, but a piece of paper doesn't make you intelligent.
We all have different paths, it's nice to hear that not all of us here are overachieving PHD's
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Dec 18, 2013 - 06:04pm PT
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I was lucky i got to go to college where the idea was to think outside the book and see things from all sorts of angles. Somehow I managed to graduate higher ed with a gpa of 3.75 but in the end i wish i had gone Survivals route. Not many regrets but thats one i do have.
wow, a 3.75 GPA in college
seriously, well done sir!
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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Dec 18, 2013 - 06:11pm PT
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Tried to drop out, but my dad wouldn't let me. When it came time to take the SATs, I filled in the answer sheet bubbles in nice patterns. Dad still found a way to exile me to my grandparents in SoDak and enrolled me in the 2nd from the bottom of the list of US universities. Dakota Wesleyan- Pride of the Prarie! (George McGovern graduated from there, so I guess it wasn't all bad)
Bailed outta there and followed the Dead for a year. Had a blast. Then a family tragedy brought me home and I began to see the benefit of an education.
Ended up rising to my current level of incompetence with a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree.
Just goes to show it's never too late to get your learnin' on.
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Dec 18, 2013 - 06:21pm PT
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i think that credentials mean far too much to most people.
and Larry you are totally right about fed jobs barring able and willing candidates because they lack a relatively meaningless piece of paper
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Dec 18, 2013 - 06:59pm PT
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I'm willing to call your bluff--If dropping out is such a great thing- How many people here are going to encourage that their children leave school?
I've seen many kids not finish school and for the most part their story was not happily ever after.
To quote a friend of mine "I didn't make the rules" but if you opt out you are not doing yourself any favors.
Easy to blame the teacher, the system, the girl who broke your heart, the media--Just plain easy to blame. At some point you got to buck up and deliver. Society rewards the obvious- Life rewards the persistent.
I'm wrapping up 30 years of teaching and at the end of my career I am not convinced of the value of our emphasis on content and facts. Skills are what are needed but to learn them is not cheap or easy. Nor is learning how to think for oneself easy. I got no answers as I'm still trying to learn how to do it.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Dec 18, 2013 - 07:24pm PT
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Education abounds in other places besides schools & universities.
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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Dec 18, 2013 - 07:37pm PT
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I dropped out in the 11th grade. Worked for a while, then took the GED. Eventually wound up with a BS in chemistry and a PhD in engineering.
I reckon that might surprise some of those f*#king teachers I had.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Dec 18, 2013 - 07:37pm PT
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i dropped out. high school was like prison. got a ged.
went to night school at the jc on and off for several years. never did graduate jc, but got into the local uc.
that road was bad at the time. it'd be a whole lot tougher now.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Bishop/Flagstaff
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Dec 18, 2013 - 08:33pm PT
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For me, and for many(I think) high school is/was not conducive to learning. a teacher must make an effort to make learning interesting. Having a 4.0 GPA doesn't necessarily make one smart.
I enjoyed college a hell of a lot more than I did high school.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Dec 18, 2013 - 08:36pm PT
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Me done got edumacated and now I is a teacher. I am glad me went to college because it made I is smarter. Me done learned to spoke too..
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Nemesis
climber
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Dec 18, 2013 - 08:41pm PT
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I think I finally discovered why everybody sucks on this site and in society in general-they are all drop outs.
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whitemeat
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Dec 18, 2013 - 08:56pm PT
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"getting the diploma was a must, but it felt like getting out of prison."
I AM STILL IN PRISON!!!!!!!! :(
HIGH SCHOOL IS THE MOST BORING AND UNPRODUCTIVE WASTE OF TIME EVER!!! (except for metal class when i get to make climbing gear!)
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Dec 18, 2013 - 08:58pm PT
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Fattrad made it to third grade and turned out alright...sort of...
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weezy
climber
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Dec 18, 2013 - 09:31pm PT
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i found out i wasn't going to gegaduate near the end of my senior year so i signed up for summer school and somehow ended up with 17 extra credits. who wants em? i have no idea what happened to my diploma. i basically have no way of proving i giguguated from high school. i think i had a 1.8 GPA? so basically i'm a f*#king genius..
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FTOR
Sport climber
CA
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Dec 18, 2013 - 09:34pm PT
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didn't really learn much until i got into berkeley
major--climbing
minor--art
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