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I didn't do as well as I could have, but I did pretty well, so I wouldn't say that I messed up in high school. If I had it to do over again, I'd have done as well academically, but gotten in a lot more trouble. I didn't start getting in trouble until the latter part of high school, and it was so much fun that I wish I'd done it sooner. You can't make up that lost time.
It was so easy to cut in my high school because we had a big campus that all of us hung out on. We also had free periods.
My high school was stricter. I got busted whenever I cut a class. Every. Single. Time. I spent so many hours in detention and doing work details for those cuts.
My high school was stricter. I got busted whenever I cut a class. Every. Single. Time. I spent so many hours in detention and doing work details for those cuts.
Lucky you... I never cut any classes until senior year, but we had a freer schedule that year, and sometimes it was just too tempting to cut out early and go for some beers in the afternoon, or something like that. I knew I'd probably get busted, but I was OK with it at that point. It was sort of fun to get in trouble, especially when all my friends were right there with me. Most of the time, I had to just sit in the detention room after school until late in the afternoon as a penalty when I got caught, but sometimes the dean made me do work details, like cleaning the writing off desktops or moving furniture.
My grades weren't stellar in high school (C average) because I didn't care... I cut classes all the time until I got a letter that said if I missed one more day of school, I would flunk high school and not graduate... I drifted aimlessly without any real goals in life... didn't have much friends either... nobody had any faith in me after school (not friends or family; I keep hearing how disappointing I am)... years later, I am wealthy and successful... Life isn't how you started out but what you do afterwards... I am fortunate because I am actually intelligent, however I just never put out any real effort (still don't)... there isn't anything I can't do if I put my mind to it, except I rarely ever put my mind to it... but I do make enough effort to be successful and I am happy with where I am in life... if you want to make it, it just requires some combination of intelligence, skill, effort, and luck... if you want it, then you are going to have to start working at it... nothing is going to drop in your hands... you have to go out and grab onto it... If I am able to turn my wife who was a nail technician at a small nail salon into a doctor, there isn't any limit on what anyone can do... I have the knowledge and capability to make things happen and lucky for my wife, I gave her what she said she wanted when we first met... she wanted success... so I helped her get it...
I got a's and b's. One year I got straight A's...I think it was 11th or 12th grade. I was pretty proud of myself.
I never got a d or f in k-12 I was proud of that record too.
But overall, it was a joke. The outside world is so much larger than whats in the confines of highschool. I see school now as a way of babysitting and pacifying young people. It acts as sort of a large truant officer.
My grades weren't stellar in high school (C average) because I didn't care... I cut classes all the time until I got a letter that said if I missed one more day of school, I would flunk high school and not graduate... I drifted aimlessly without any real goals in life... didn't have much friends either... nobody had any faith in me after school (not friends or family; I keep hearing how disappointing I am)... years later, I am wealthy and successful... Life isn't how you started out but what you do afterwards... I am fortunate because I am actually intelligent, however I just never put out any real effort (still don't)... there isn't anything I can't do if I put my mind to it, except I rarely ever put my mind to it... but I do make enough effort to be successful and I am happy with where I am in life... if you want to make it, it just requires some combination of intelligence, skill, effort, and luck... if you want it, then you are going to have to start working at it... nothing is going to drop in your hands... you have to go out and grab onto it... If I am able to turn my wife who was a nail technician at a small nail salon into a doctor, there isn't any limit on what anyone can do... I have the knowledge and capability to make things happen and lucky for my wife, I gave her what she said she wanted when we first met... she wanted success... so I helped her get it...
And what is wifey giving you in return? I hope it is something good...
I was bullied in H.S., it took me a great effort to pull off a C or D, and I dropped out in 11th grade for 3 months. My sister worked in the principal's office of a Catholic High School, and pulling some strings, I got back in and passed 11th grade by the skin of my teeth.
Lots of time on detention, skipping classes, but I managed to graduate, miracles of miracles!
Then! For whatever possessed me, I went to Junior College, found it all infinitely interesting, loved the iinspiring professors, and left Junior College with a trail of A's, B's and a few C's, and this was during the late 60's when I was smoking pot every day!
From there to the University of Minnesota.
So never give up on a screw-up in high school. Miracles can happen!
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I spent so many hours in detention and doing work details for those cuts.
I was proud of that record too.
