What I did in Math today

[tevo]

People should be careful how they judge.

Yes, I graduated with a 1.8.
I nearly didn't because they forgot my 1/2 credit of algebra from summer school. They claimed I was a half credit short.
It combined nicely with my 1/2 credit from marine biology.

I was also held back in 7th grade.

After graduating, a friend and I took the MENSA test on a whim. I missed getting in by 2 percentage points.

Just because I did poorly in school, is meaningless, quite frankly. High school was Mickey mouse bull ****.


My sister graduated with a 4.0, got scholarships to college (I got in on probation), she has a business degree and accounting.
I make more than double what she does.

Public school sucks. It doesn't work for everyone. I wasn't in a poor school district either.
Just because some one is bad with math, doesn't mean they can't be successful.

Lecture Tevo all you want.

Tevo, find what you love to do and totally immerse yourself in it, and you will be successful.
I have found that people who don't like math, tend not to want to be rocket scientists.

Well thats absolute madness Jeweler. People who aren't math savvy are destined to pursue a career involving math! It's the only logical path!





But all jokes aside, thats what I'm going for. Photography is at the front of my brain, 24/7. My world is seen through a mental viewfinder, it's been that way since I got my first camera. Thanks for the support Jeweler

 

[Compaq]

I am likely to have job offers when I'm done with my education. USA and Norway is pretty different. Having relevant experience isn't the most important factor here. When I'm done, I'm an educated chemist with a specialisation. If I choose to go the route of analytical chemistry, there's a 100% chance of me getting a job right out of uni with no work experience. Of course, there is a difference between natural sciences and professional educations (studying to become one thing (firefighter, nurse, policeman))...

 

[Robin Usagani]

I will give up my Masters in Civil Engineering for knowing how to play a piano and sing... seriously

 

[Trever1t]

I'll add.

I'm a materials engineer that dropped out of school at 16. I do ok. BUT had I applied myself, no matter how freaking boring school was, I'm sure I'd be in an even better position.

My advice to the young Tevo is to work as hard as possible to master what comes difficultly, you may not enjoy or think you need it but later you might, just might wish you had applied yourself more to the subjects that are giving you trouble.

Certainly you can succeed in life without but with it might be just a little easier

It's an interesting thread.

 

[tevo]

I'll add.

I'm a materials engineer that dropped out of school at 16. I do ok. BUT had I applied myself, no matter how freaking boring school was, I'm sure I'd be in an even better position.

My advice to the young Tevo is to work as hard as possible to master what comes difficultly, you may not enjoy or think you need it but later you might, just might wish you had applied yourself more to the subjects that are giving you trouble.

Certainly you can succeed in life without but with it might be just a little easier

It's an interesting thread.

This is why I haven't edited the OP - it might not invoke such deep conversation ^^

 

[Ballistics]

Junior, I have raised two successful children. I don't think you have an ounce of where-with-all to suggest to me that I am incapable of giving evaluative and supportive advice to others simply because it is contrary to your limited and tiny scope of the world or beliefs. I wish you much successs as well, but with your ****ty and jealous outlook on life, I don't think you'll go as far as the (creative) risk takers that you seem inclined to want to hold back.

If you think for one second that you can't acheive what you put your mind to then you surely don't know a thing about determination and ought to be schooled about human nature.

You make the weirdest assumptions. My tiny scope of the world? As in seeing it? You did notice I mentioned I am prior military right? I've worked on aircraft in multiple time zones in the same day so I've been around the block and have seen much more than you could ever think I have. You don't have to wish me success, I have it. I have a beautiful wife, 2 healthy kids, and I am collecting a large monthly check to once again further my education. Telling people that all you have to do is believe in themselves is fairy tale crap. You need to work hard, or win the lottery. Odds are, however, that just having a good outlook on life will not cut it.

You are just a fickle hypocrite, you come here to promote this kid drawing on his hand in math class, yet you post in my thread that I'm being robbed in my education because I received an A for something that you disagreed with. Get over yourself, your contradictory logic and your crazy assumptions. I'm not sitting here telling you what I think you are doing, or have done or who you are. However, I am beginning to see a trend with you; either you are looking to create drama in every thread you post in, or you are looking to just make waves with me. Knock it off, because you don't know me.

 

[Ballistics]

Tevo, I am in on way telling you that math is the ONLY way to make it in life. I dropped out of high school, got my GED, joined the military, took 1 or 2 college courses, got an honorable discharge and then started a personal training business. I did OK with it, but a measly $600-$800 a weak wouldn't cut it so I went back to and am currently in college. I understand that attitude helps, but it's a small puzzle piece to the big picture. I never told you to give up your dream, but I am telling you to have a back up plan. If it were easy, we wouldn't have a high unemployment rate in this country. I take photography as an elective, but I am in a photography major course, and when I go to the photo lab you can hear final semester students complain that they can't even find places to intern. Nothing is impossible, but you have to take into account the odds of every situation. Having an analytic mind isn't the worst thing in the world.

 

[Ballistics]

I don't know why a struggle in math is the idea, perhaps I didn't read thorugh it fully, perhaps it really doesn't matter, but IMHO the photo that was illustrative of details on that were well thought out, well placed, well described and were so overall encompassing with creativity and detail and insight that they can't be explained away with a poo-poo dismssive attitude. They are examples of creative genius. I don't think that Tevo is an example of an ADD or ADHD student, or one of a give a crap attitude and certainly not of a low level contributor of society.

Ok, so after reading this GG - I refuse to take you seriously from here on out. Thanks for the laugh.

 

[willis_927]

Sorry I stopped reading all the posts about being good or bad at math. What I can't figure out is why you are writing peoples name (who you don't even know [likely]) from an online forum on your hand to begin with... Strange...

 

[mishele]

My turn...

I'm a HS Grad. that didn't go to college right away (I only have a few credits). I'm currently an administrator of a large Nursery School. I hire and train teachers w/ 2 and 4 year degrees. lol I also counsel parents on how to deal w/ behavior problems at home and school. Sounds great right!! But I'm stuck, if I would ever leave my current job, been here 15+ years, I would need a 4 yr degree to do it some where else. I so wish I would of finished school back in the day!! It would make my life sooo much easier. =) (Disclaimer...I know I have a choice to go back to school, I choose not too, so yes that is on me.=))

BTW.......I was pretty bad at math. That doesn't mean I didn't work my ass off trying to get better. In the end, it has never held me back in the real world.

Work as hard as you can and learn as much as you can while it's "free"!!

Bitter I'm w/ you!! HS was a joke. It was pretty much learn the way I teach or fail. I could go on and on about our education system but this thread will be locked...lol

 

[shootermcgavin]

Wow this is a long post for a picture with some names drawn on it. I agree HS was and is more so now a joke. There's too many rich people in the world with no education at all to pretend that school will change your future. I hope my kids prefer to invest "college money" into a business rather than blowing it on a degree they may never use. I actually work in the same field I went to school for, but that's not the norm from what I've seen.

 

[Derrel]

uh...how did Einstein do in school?

Just sayin'

Smart to study hard and cover all bases but strong will and determination will always put you where you need to be.

School is fine for those that learn from it but isn't a requirement to be smart. Contrary, some people are too smart for school.

Whadda ya' mean "some people are too smart for school?" Do you mean people like those college drop-outs Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? Both of those guys dropped out of college, Gates from Harvard, and Jobs from the exclusive private Reed College out in Oregon, and look at how badly things turned out for those two!! Neither one of them could afford to buy more than a thousand McDonald's Restaurants for lunch at the peak of their earning power as CEO's of huge companies. And Jobs sold some stupid Pixar something or other cartoon-making company to Disney for a measly seven point four billion US Dollars...

So yeah, definitely, stay in school tevo. The Steve Jobs guy was the worst example...when he graduated from high school his neighbor's husband said to him, "Kid, I've got just one word for you, one word: Plastics!" And instead of listening to that nice man, he went into the personal computer making business! IDIOT!!!!!

 

[Trever1t]

lol, exactamundo!

 

[spacefuzz]

steve jobs and gates may have dropped out......but they are the exceptions rather than the rule. I dont see 50,000 people as rich as bill gates laying around cancun all day......

I sucked at math, I have dyslexia and it blows. But you can work hard and get good enough at it to do what you want, even if its hard.
You can also succeed if you blow off high school or college, it just makes it more difficult. For instance I didnt get my dream job because I had a 2.9 instead of a 3.0 in college. That is a horrible feeling. (and to everyone who would say I lacked requisite experience: it was for a company I had been working with as a supplier for two years and knew them all personally. They actually made me an offer before interviewing me....but when I submitted my transcript to HR they nixed it because it was company policy to require a 3.0.)

So having that slip of paper just shows everyone without meeting you that you have a certain level of education / competance. You can succeed without it, but its harder. Also getting in the habit of working hard at things that are hard, that will just help you in all of life.

 

[jake337]

steve jobs and gates may have dropped out......but they are the exceptions rather than the rule. I dont see 50,000 people as rich as bill gates laying around cancun all day......

I sucked at math, I have dyslexia and it blows. But you can work hard and get good enough at it to do what you want, even if its hard.
You can also succeed if you blow off high school or college, it just makes it more difficult. For instance I didnt get my dream job because I had a 2.9 instead of a 3.0 in college. That is a horrible feeling. (and to everyone who would say I lacked requisite experience: it was for a company I had been working with as a supplier for two years and knew them all personally. They actually made me an offer before interviewing me....but when I submitted my transcript to HR they nixed it because it was company policy to require a 3.0.)

So having that slip of paper just shows everyone without meeting you that you have a certain level of education / competance. You can succeed without it, but its harder. Also getting in the habit of working hard at things that are hard, that will just help you in all of life.

I wouldn't call them the exceptions. Many with years of schooling and piles of degrees may never amount to anything either. Its the vision, the passion, the drive, the devotion which brings individuals to these levels. In the end, it is put up or shut up in any field.

I don't have enough fingers and toes to count old friends with post high school education, varying from 2-8 years, are working at local pizza shops and warehouses. Just my opionion, but most of them seemed to be pushed towards education rather than pushed towards following their heart.

At the opposite end of the field is my good friend who never made it back to school after 6th grade. At one point he was living in a van in the woods. His passion and devotion is now driving a lucrative landscape and tree removal company.


I would agree that having degrees to back it up will always helps.


On a side note I believe pre-college education is more about learning how to learn and not the actuall subjects taught.