jesse_activist said:UKing said:jesse_activist said:
Many times. Not work. I never skipped work, but school, quite a bit.
I had a lot of trouble sleeping in high school and I still do really, but it made it rough to wake up in time to go to school. I'd often fall asleep at 5am and have to be awake at 7am. It just didn't fit together very good. So often times I'd just sleep in, skip school, wake up and watch anime, maybe go to school the next day depending on the week. If we had a lot of homework, I'd go. If we didn't, I just stayed home. I missed A LOT of school in high school. Not just to sit home and watch anime (that didn't help any), but because I didn't really need to go. I still got A's in B's in all my classes so actually attending wasn't necessary.
I hate this kind of logic. I mean what the hell makes you think you shouldn't go, just because you're naturally intelligent?
I've never stayed off school, college, or work to do something like watch TV, or for any other reason apart from being ill or on holiday.
I mean, of course school gets some people down, maybe they hate it and it affects them in a serious way psychologically, then maybe i will accept their excuse for not attending. But come off it... 'i still got A's and B's so it doesn't matter'
You should of got all A's...
I could and should have tried harder in school. I'll be the first to admit that. I just never liked going to school. Especially my school. I live in a small town where most of the teachers really don't care, and the few that do, hardly make a dent. Most of the teachers really didn't teach. Their method was, "here's the worksheet and book, worksheet is due tomorrow." or "Read this book, write a report, and turn it in tomorrow." So I didn't learn much while being in school. I took it upon myself to learn the subjects I needed to at home through studying. Granted, a lot of the time I did just glide by because of natural intelligence. However, some classes (Though not at school) I studied quite hard for (Anatomy & Physiology) to name a couple. So it's not as if I wasn't learning anything, I was just going about it in a unconventional way.
However it's not something I intend to do upon entering University. I actually plan to attend all courses and get the best education possible. I'm much more confident that a University is going to have professors who can actually do a good job of teaching. Not "here's a work sheet, here's a book, I'm going to go sit down and read the paper now."